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
The brightly burning light guided Hosmer to the kitchen, where he found Lorenzo Worthington seated beside his student lamp at the table, which was covered with a neat red cloth.
From At Fault by Chopin, Kate
In another moment a dozen marshmallows were frizzling over the gas-jets, while the student lamp did duty for several more.
From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
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
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 Sarg, Tony
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