Lotusland
English
Etymology
Coined by Canadian writer Allan Fotheringham with reference to the mythic land of the lotus eaters in Homer's Odyssey.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænd
Proper noun
Lotusland
- (informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (and, by extension, the province of British Columbia).
- 1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada (1999), →ISBN, page 10:
- "Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.
- 1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada (1999), →ISBN, page 10:
References
Further reading
Nicknames of Vancouver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia