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Quotation dates: 1450-1605
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Map(p)amo(u)nd, n. Also: mapamone. [ME. mapamonde, mappemounde (Chaucer, Gower), thereafter appar. chiefly or only Sc., F. mappe-monde, med. L. mappa mundi map of the world.] The globe, the world. c1450-2 Howlat 328.
Halkis war … Marchonis in the mapamond, and of mychtis most a1500 Henr. Orph. 106 (Ch. & M.).
Quhilk armony [of the spheres] throu all this mappamound … of this warld Pluto the saul can call 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 149.
To reid I began … The moving of the mapamond and how the moyn schane 1528 Lynd. Dreme 833.
Meit, drynk … than mycht be gart abound Quhilkis ellis is nocht in al the mapamound 1533 Bell. Livy I. 1/11.
The twynkland sternis about the mappamound c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 216 b/26, 277 b/26. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 126.
Of all palice it was the luminair That euer ȝitwas maid on mappamond c1550 Ib. 896.
In mappamond 1591-2 Rob Stene 17.
Bosting … to confound With new deludge the mappa mound c1590 J. Stewart II. 173/5. a1605 Montg. Flyt. 437 (T).
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