• Lamplight

    Origin

    lamp + light

    Full definition of lamplight

    Noun

    lamplight

    (countable and uncountable; plural lamplights)
    1. The light emitted by a lamp.
      • 2013-08-03, Yesterday’s fuel, The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania....It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
    2. We sat around reading by lamplight all night.
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