holland

After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollands)

1. (now historical) A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
   • 1768, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 23:

     I am convinced that many if not all the Quality in France were shirts of the finest holand, for tho' I never saw of them strip I have seen what is an equivalent proof, I have seen on the Bulwarks of Paris above twenty entire shirts hanging to dry that the best Gentlemen in England might wear without disparagement.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     His apartments were blank. Brown hollands covered his library-table

• brown holland

Back-formation from Hollandia. Ultimately from Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈholːɒnd]
• Hyphenation: hol‧land
• Rhymes: -ɒnd

holland (not comparable)

1. Dutch (of or relating to the Netherlands, its people or language)

holland (countable and uncountable, plural hollandok)

1. Dutch (person)
2. Dutch (language)

• holland in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN