flash lamp

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noun Photography.

a lamp for providing momentary illumination of the subject of a photograph.

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Also called flash.

Origin of flash lamp

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby flash lamp

flash-freeze, flashgun, flashing, flashing point, flash in the pan, flash lamp, flashlight, flashlight fish, flash-lock, flash memory, flash method

How to use flash lamp in a sentence

The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance.
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Afterward, you can actually see her young career flash before her eyes as she makes a kind of puffed up blowfish face.
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In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.
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Cops launched a flash grenade through the window and officer Joseph Weekley fired, fatally striking Stanley-Jones.
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The grasp on the sabre would tighten; the quiet eyes would flash.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
If those jaspers flash any part of the roll in the Territory before snowfall, I'll get them.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair