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gig-lamps

plural noun

  1. an old-fashioned slang term for spectacles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The wives took after their husbands, who could drive without gig-lamps in the darkest night.

It's the man who sticks to the one game that drives the swaggerest dog-cart and wears the whitest gig-lamps in the long run.

Scalp me if I don’t go and hunt bugs upon the perairie with a brace o’ gig-lamps stuck across my nose.

The big, fat Providence in gig-lamps is sitting by the patient.

"Get that girl to give back your gig-lamps, and you will be able to see more clearly into the soul of the Far East."

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