lamplight

American  

[lamp-lahyt] / ˈlæmpˌlaɪt /

noun

1. the light lights thrown by a lamp.

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Etymology

Origin of lamplight

First recorded in 1570–80; lamp + light ¹

Example Sentences

Around Viola’s felled tree, lamplights of historical knowledge flicker like electrified fireflies.

From Los Angeles Times

The men gazed back like mongooses caught in lamplights.

From Literature

As Lincoln spoke, one observer, Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, a free black woman, standing a few steps from the president, remarked that the lamplight made him “stand out boldly in the darkness.”

From Literature

His memories, he says, “are still tinged with the lamplight of that era” before electricity.

From Los Angeles Times

Two hours and a rapid PCR test later, I sat in the dark of a tent, watching as two young women formed a kind of Pietà in a pool of warm yellow lamplight.

From New York Times