LAMPLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lamplight mean? 

• LAMPLIGHT (noun)
  The noun LAMPLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. light from a lamp

  Familiarity information: LAMPLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMPLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Light from a lamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("lamplight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Beauty Smith blinked in the lamplight and looked about him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His work at the anvil had developed his arms to their utmost, and his healthy country living gave a sleek gloss to his ivory skin, which shone in the lamplight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s methods to be able to follow his reasoning, and to see that the nature and state of the various medical instruments in the wicker basket which hung in the lamplight inside the brougham had given him the data for his swift deduction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But still the lamplight shone upon the lad’s clear, alert face, upon his well-opened eyes and his firm-set mouth, while the blows were taken upon his forearm or allowed, by a quick duck of the head, to whistle over his shoulder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They seemed to swarm over the place all at once, till the lamplight, shining on their moving dark bodies and glittering, baleful eyes, made the place look like a bank of earth set with fireflies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)