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COCKAIGNE (COCKAYNE), LAND OF (O. Fr. Coquaigne, mod. Fr. cocagne, " abundance," from Ital. Cocagna; " as we say ` Lubberland,' the epicure's or glutton's home, the land of all delights, so taken in mockerie ": Florio)

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COCKAIGNE (COCKAYNE), LAND OF (O. Fr. Coquaigne, mod. Fr. cocagne, " abundance," from Ital. Cocagna; " as we say ` Lubberland,' the epicure's or glutton's home, the land of all delights, so taken in mockerie ": Florio) , an imaginary country, a medieval Utopia where
life
  was a continual round of luxurious idleness. The origin of the Italian word has been much disputed. It seems safest to connect it, as do Grimm and Littre, ultimately with Lat. coquere, through a word meaning " cake," the literal sense thus being " The Land of Cakes." In Cockaigne the rivers were of wine, the houses were built of cake and barley-
sugar
 , the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing. Roast geese and fowls wandered about inviting folks to eat them, and buttered larks fell from the skies like
manna
 . There is a 13th-century French
fabliau
 , Cocaigne, which was possibly intended to ridicule the fable of the mythical Avalon, " the
island
  of the Blest." The 13th-century
English
  poem, The Land of Cockaygne, is a
satire
  on monastic
life
 . The
term
  has been humorously applied to London, and by Boileau to the Paris of the
rich
 . The word has been frequently confused with Cockney (q.v.).
See D. M. Won, Fabliaux et conies (4 vols., 1808), and F. J.
Furnivall
 , Early
English
  Poems (Berlin, 1862).


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