1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
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Lamplighter
Synonyms for "lamplighter"
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8 translations across 7 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- fanaler noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
- fanalera noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
German
1 entries- Laternenanzünder noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Hungarian
1 entries- lámpagyújtogató noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Italian
1 entries- lampionaio noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Polish
1 entries- latarnik noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Spanish
1 entries- farolero noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ліхта́рник noun (a person employed to light streetlights)
Sample sentences
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I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter.
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[…] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.
Source: wiktionary
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