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
On a center table, all gilt and glass, was a common student lamp, looking cheap and mean in that quiet, rich, glittering room, and beside it were some sheets of paper and several pencils.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Geraldine Bonner
“I was correcting some examination papers,” she added, going to the desk and turning out the student lamp.
From The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League by Gertrude W. Morrison
He studied when he might better have been at play, and he kept up his diary under a student lamp into all hours of the night.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
The single anachronism was the big, nickel, green-shaded student lamp.
From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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