Groonland

English

Proper noun

Groonland

  1. Obsolete form of Greenland.
    • 1624, John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
      […] Island, Groonland, Estotiland […]
    • 1628, Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (page 88)
      […] to speake of Albion, the most famous and best Ile of all Europe, and the greatest also except Groonland (which in Europe is to be comprised) […]
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