lamplighter
Americannoun
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a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
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a contrivance for lighting lamps.
noun
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(formerly) a person who lit and extinguished street lamps, esp gas ones
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any of various devices used to light lamps
Etymology
Origin of lamplighter
Example Sentences
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The books took his readers deep into "the circus" with jargon such as "honey trap", "mole" and "lamplighter" becoming common parlance.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda shows up as Poppins’s sidekick, Jack, a lamplighter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
“Mary Poppins Returns,” starring Emily Blunt as everyone’s favorite magical nanny, and Lin-Manuel Miranda as her Cockney lamplighter pal, is a sequel to “Mary Poppins,” the Oscar-winning 1964 classic.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2018
In “Mary Poppins Returns,” Mr. Miranda’s lamplighter, Jack, leads an athletic dance number, much in the way the chimney sweep Bert led “Step in Time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2018
A lamplighter scuttled along the edges of the crowd igniting the gas jets atop cast-iron poles.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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