nightlamp

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

night +‎ lamp

Noun[edit]

nightlamp (plural nightlamps)

  1. A lamp providing illumination at night.
    • 1842, Mrs. Monkland, The Nabob at Home; Or, The Return to England, page 7:
      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 […]
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