Albionnoun
/ˈæl.bi.ən/literaryused as a name for England or Britain, especially the England or Britain of ancient times
Examples from literature
- Here was a youth whose rosy cheeks proclaimed the shores of Albion.
- These sons and daughters of Albion who have transplanted themselves to French soil, can show good and true reasons why they prefer the French to the English life.
- They were on the waters, and the shores of Albion, fast fading away, had diminished to a speck.
- We borrow from perfidious Albion the doctrine of liberty.
- We were ten days walking, riding and resting at taverns, in our rural tour of Old Albion.