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Quotation dates: 1420, 1515-1562, 1658
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Duch(e)-, Dutchland, n. [MDu. Dutsclant.] Germany. c1420 Wynt. iv. 2423.
This Duche-land cald Germany c1420 Ib. 2434.
Tyberyus wes warrayande Thre yhere in this Duch-land c1515 Asloan MS I. 306/11.
[In] Europia … is Germanea superior hie Ducheland … Germanea inferior law Ducheland 1535–6 Master of Works Accounts IV. 70.
To Johne Tod duelland in Duchland for ijc lx pece eistland burd c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3026.
Ducheland, Denmark, nor ȝit Yrland War nocht inhabit in those dayis 1562 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 47.
Withtin the cuntre of Ducheland, vthirwayis in our leid callit Germanie 1658 Brechin Testaments MS. VI. 163.
Nyne dutchland latine bookes
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