lamplight

[lamp-lahyt]

noun

1. the light lights thrown by a lamp.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamplight¹

First recorded in 1570–80; lamp + light ¹

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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To confirm their light-sensing role, the researchers covered the centipedes’ antennae with tinfoil, blocking their exposure to the lamplight.

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Greasy lamplights and candles flicker dangerously close to actors' hair, and the lack of electricity understandably makes the story feel older, timeless or stuck forever in the oil painting past, crushed by its own weight.

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