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Holland

proper noun

  1. region on the western coast of the Netherlands
  2. Netherlands as a whole
  3. place name
  4. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlənd/ / /ˈhɑlənd/

name

Etymology: Most commonly derived from Old English hoh land (“spur land”). However, on the basis of the topographical inappropriateness of this name and early forms, Coates and Breeze (2000) argued that the first element is a Proto-Brythonic haiw- (“marsh, swamp”).

  1. A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland.
  2. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.

noun

Etymology: After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

  1. A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.

    “I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France wore shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.”

    “His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table”