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Geneva, called in Latin Lemannus.
“Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face.”
Lord Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 68.
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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.