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Lyonnesse

(3 syl.). “That sweet land of Lyonnesse”- a tract between the Land's End and the Scilly Isles, now submerged full “forty fathoms under water.” Arthur came from this mythical country.

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

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