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 MacGrath, Harold
In that old ivied manse exists A scholar, wrinkled, bent, and gray, His student lamp gleams through the mists And twinkles on till break of day.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
A flood of radiance from the relighted student lamp fell athwart the floor.
From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph
A green-shaded student lamp with a pile of magazines and papers on the table caught their curious eyes, and they gazed in awe at the long shelves of books against the wall.
From Helen of the Old House by Wright, Harold Bell
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