stone lantern

noun

1. (in Japan) an intricately carved lantern of stone, often placed in a garden or before a shrine.
2. a usually inexpensive reproduction of this, often made of cast metal.

Example Sentences

The little stone lantern I bought the day of the paeony flowers, is also green, with a faint haze of centuries over it!

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On the right, at the foot of two or three steps that led to a higher bank, was a stone lantern such as you see in temple grounds.

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She had learned to walk on the soft sandy paths, she had spelled out her first characters on the old stone-lantern.

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The stone lantern which surmounts it, white and dazzling, looked as though it were suspended on high.

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Note, besides other things, stone lantern, piscina with carved dog and bone.

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