Definition of "laund"

laund

/lɔːnd/

noun
plural launds
1. (archaic) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
  Quotations
  Through this laund anon the deer will come.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
  About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,
  1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
  Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).
  1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire