Brewer's: 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)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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