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The Netherlands; so called from the Bataʹvi, a Celtic tribe who dwelt there.
“Flat Batavia’s willowy groves.”
Wordsworth.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.