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
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
The student lamp was lighted, and new fuel added to the grate.
From Marguerite Verne by Armour, Rebecca Agatha
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
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 Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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