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.)
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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.