Swisserland
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Swisserland
- (obsolete) Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe; official name: Swiss Confederation; capital: Bern (de facto))
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 108:
- “As soon as my aunt gets well, I shall go abroad,” said he. I shall never be easy till I have seen some of these places. You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look at—or my tour to read—or my poem. I shall do something to expose myself.” “That may be—but not by sketches in Swisserland. You will never go to Swisserland. Your uncle and aunt will never allow you to leave England.”
Scots
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Swisserland
- (archaic) Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)
References
[edit]- “swisher”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.