Old Land †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the country of one's origin (other than Canada), especially the British Isles.

Quotations

1919

. . . the amber fluid that trickled through the spiggot transported, mentally, the Englishmen back to the Old Land.

1922

"That's why we need some of you people from the Old Land to mix with ours," said Jean.