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flash lamp

or flashlamp

noun

, Photography.
  1. a lamp for providing momentary illumination of the subject of a photograph.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flash lamp1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

With an electric flash-lamp he scared them away, but soon getting used to it they came on 'in close formation.'

It overlooks the German trenches and when the spy was using his flash lamp he could not be observed by the men in our lines.'

"You'll find a flash lamp in the right hand pocket of my coat," directed Bridge.

To their right, in the faint light of the flash lamp, a narrow stairway was revealed leading to the second story.

At the foot of the stairway leading to the second floor lay the flash lamp that the boy had dropped the night before.

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