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
Seeing that he had chosen history she fetched her workbasket, drew up an arm-chair to the green-shaded student lamp, and uncovered a cushion she was embroidering for his sofa.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
At his elbow softly burned a shaded student lamp, on a table covered with a scarlet and black cloth, and littered with books.
From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston
He promptly took off his coat, displaying in the rays of a green-shaded student lamp a pair of forearms worthy of the hands which went with them.
From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Lucien Price
I made a point of the advantages to be derived by carrying on our investigations beside the student lamp during the long evenings of early spring, which were then on us.
From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg
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