Loamshiren.
/ˈləʊmʃə/ Name given to an imaginary rural county, much used in novels and plays; also (plural) a regiment from this county. Also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place
fairyc1330
rumbelow?1515
Hogs Norton?1565
fairyland1600
wonderland1790
other world1804
dreamland1832
Fourth World1833
cloudland1846
Loamshire1859
looking-glass land1871
looking-glass world1871
under-land1874
cloud-world1884
Speewah1890
Ruritania1894
cloud-cuckoo-land1899
cuckoo-land1916
fantasy world1920
Squaresville1956
la-la land1979
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 108 He was only a captain in the Loamshire Militia.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. xii. 230 Jolly housekeeping—finest stud in Loamshire.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 18 Transome Court was a large mansion..with a park and grounds as fine as any to be seen in Loamshire.
1912 G. W. E. Russell Afterthoughts xvii. 158 In Loamshire ‘my foot is on my native heath’, and I have been renewing my youth by contact with my early friends.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond i. 24 Captain Hugh Drummond, D.S.O., M.C., late of His Majesty's Royal Loamshires.
1954 K. Tynan in Observer 31 Oct. 6/1 Look about you; survey the peculiar nullity of our drama's prevalent genre, the Loamshire play.
1962 Listener 6 Dec. 959/1 They [sc. English novelists] also have to avoid the pitfall of regionalism and dialect. They have to avoid Loamshire.
1974 R. L. Green & W. Hooper C. S. Lewis x. 247 In the version which Green read..Digory..stayed in a farm cottage with an old countryman called Piers and his wife, who spoke with a rather laboured ‘Loamshire’ accent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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