Nightlamp

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lamp providing illumination at night.

    "Dr. M'Alpin and he sat up until the extinction of the lights in the lower rooms round the square, and the glimmering of the nightlamps in the upper chambers, warned them that the world had retired to rest[…]"

Example

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"Dr. M'Alpin and he sat up until the extinction of the lights in the lower rooms round the square, and the glimmering of the nightlamps in the upper chambers, warned them that the world had retired to rest[…]"

Etymology

From night + lamp.

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