Lantern Land
Preserved but no longer current.
The land 9f literary charla- tans, pedantic graduates in arts, doctors, professors, prelates, and so on ridiculed as "Lanterns" by Rabelais (with a side allusion to the divines assembled in conference at the Council of Trent) in his Pantagruel, v, 33, Cp. CITY OF LANTERNS.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “Lantern Land” mean?
The land 9f literary charla- tans, pedantic graduates in arts, doctors, professors, prelates, and so on ridiculed as "Lanterns" by Rabelais (with a side allusion to the divines assembled in conference at the Council of Trent) in his Pantagruel, v, 33, Cp. CITY OF LANTERNS.
Is “Lantern Land” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.