student lamp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of student lamp
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp of his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind a broad, flat, mahogany desk, with a green-shaded student lamp at his elbow, sat a bright-cheeked, white-haired man, writing.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
When dinner was over Mary Louise went into the library and, drawing a chair to where the light of the student lamp flooded her book, tried to read.
From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
They saw the dim glow of the student lamp in his quarters, as they jingled cheerily away.
From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Edwin Willard Deming
A table, by one window, had on it a student lamp and neat piles of manuscript, while a dozen books were supported by book ends, against the wall.
From Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke
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