What does border-land mean?
Border-land means Archaic spelling of borderland..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Archaic spelling of borderland..
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
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.
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Border-land means Archaic spelling of borderland..
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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
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