Lotusland

English

Etymology

Coined by Canadian writer Allan Fotheringham with reference to the mythic land of the lotus-eaters in Homer's Odyssey.[1]

Proper noun

Lotusland

  1. (informal) Nickname of 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.

References
  1. Bill Casselman, Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse Through Words and Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians, Copp Clark (1995), →ISBN, pages 76-77

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