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 Lantern Jaws.Lanterns. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Lantern-Land.
 
The land of literary charlatans, whose inhabitants are graduates in arts, doctors, professors, prelates, and so on. (Rabelais: Pantagruel, v. 33.) (See CITY OF LANTERNS.)   1
 


 Lantern Jaws.Lanterns. 

 
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