Chapter Lancers to Lantern Jaws of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Langue d'Oc The Provencal branch of the Gallo-Romaic idiom; so called from their oc (yes).

Langue d'Oil Walloon or Germanised Gallo-Romaic; so called from their pronouncing our yes as oil (o.e) These Gauls lived north of the Loire; the Provencals dwelt south of that river.

Languish (Lydia). A young lady of romantic notions in The Rivals, a play by Sheridan.

Lantern In Christian art, the attribute of St. Gudule and St. Hugh.
   The feast of lanterns. Tradition says that the daughter of a famous mandarin, walking alone by a lake one evening, fell in. The father called together his neighbours, and all went with lanterns to look for her, and happily she was rescued. In commemoration thereof an annual festival was held on the spot, and grew in time to the celebrated “feast of lanterns.” (Present State of China.)
   À la lanterne. Hang him with the lantern or lamp ropes. A cry and custom introduced in the French revolution.

Lantern Jaws Cheeks so thin that one may see daylight through them, as light shows through the horn of a lantern. In French, “un visage si maigre que si on mettait une bougie allumée dans la bouche, la lumière paraitait au travers des joues.”
   Lantern-jawed. Having lantern-jaws.