cloud-cuckoo-land

cloud-cuckoo-land
/klowd"kooh'kooh land', -kook'ooh-/, n.
an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
[1815-25; trans. of Gk Nephelokokkygía, the realm which separates the gods from mankind in Aristophanes' The Birds]

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