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
He felt as he used to feel when under the student lamp in his college room he had calculated the chances of filling a bobtail straight as against a four flush.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
Then she locked her door, got out her pen and her blank book, lit the student lamp, and sat down at her table.
From Cinderella Jane by Cooke, Marjorie Benton
The single anachronism was the big, nickel, green-shaded student lamp.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
An open book lay upon the desk, and the student lamp cast a full light upon the words that had caught the reader's thoughts after the events of the day and their outcome.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
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