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The Lake of Constance; so called becuase it lies in the Boden, or low country at the foot of the Alps. (Latin, Senus Bodamicus.)
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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.