marchlandn.
/ˈmɑːtʃlənd/, U.S. /ˈmɑrtʃˌlænd/ Now chiefly historical.
Land comprising the marches of a country; a border territory or district.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s)
end-landc1175
marcha1325
bounds1340
coast1377
marcherc1475
border1489
marchland1536
confines1548
front1589
limitrophe1589
commark1612
land-march1614
frontier1676
Border-sidea1700
borderland1813
border-countryc1885
rimland1942
1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 369 Litle ynough..for the surveiyng of the Kinges marche landes.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 495/2 Some march-lands betwixt two neighbour Nations.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 249 Marchers should dwell upon their March lands.
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) at Bi-scot, 9 Edw. 3 It was decreed, That if any one in those parts of Marchland, should not repair his proportion of the Banks, Ditches and Causeys, by a day assigned, xiid. for every Perch unrepaired..should be levied upon him.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiii. 314 A warrior from the marchland of Tours and Blois.
1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXIX. 122/1 Glendower made a vigorous attack on Melenydd, a Welsh marchland district.., an ancient possession of the house of Mortimer.
1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Nov. 1435/4 (advt.) New chapters and maps on..the northern marchlands of India.
1975 New Left Rev. Nov. 14 The march-lands and the countryside may have formulated the ideology of nationalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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