Brewer's: Leman

(Lake). Geneva, called in Latin Lemannus.

“Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face.”

LordByron: Childe Harold, iii. 68.

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