The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Instead of heading right to bed, I crept downstairs to the aquarium, where rows of heads rested against tanks that glowed like lava lamps.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2016
In addition to the slime and sour-killing demonstrations, the students also showed children how to make lava lamps fizzle and clean pennies.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2015
You did not come to the Ace Hotel, to this micro-neighborhood of pour-over coffee, lava lamps and $300 jeans to dine on rabbit-liver terrine and quenelles de brochet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2014
There was a grand piano in reception for lunchtime recreation and lava lamps everywhere.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2013
The premise, the designer said backstage, was looking back at his childhood — yet how could a 28-year-old remember lava lamps from the 1970s — unless they arrived very late in Glasgow?
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2011
