Border-land

Quick meaning: Border-land is a noun meaning Archaic spelling of borderland.

Meaning

Archaic spelling of borderland.

Example Sentences

The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.

The old rune-songs may, however, still be heard on both sides of the border-land in Finnish and in Russian Carelia, as also on the shores of Lake Ladoga, in Ingria, and in the neighbourhood of Kajana in Osterbotten.

1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. , some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties

Word Forms

• border-lands

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