"Land of the Long White Cloud" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the Land of the Long White Cloud [canonical]
Etymology: Loose calque of Maori Aotearoa, from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004). Probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|mi|Aotearoa|nocap=1}} calque of Maori Aotearoa, {{m|mi|ao||cloud, daytime, world}} ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), {{m|mi|tea||white}} tea (“white”), {{m|mi|roa||long, tall}} roa (“long, tall”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|head=Land of the Long White Cloud}} the Land of the Long White Cloud
  1. (poetic) New Zealand. Tags: poetic Categories (place): Country nicknames, New Zealand

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