gooseneck lamp

noun

1. a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gooseneck lamp¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

I have a homework desk with a gooseneck lamp; a collection of cute, pastel-colored pens from Japan; and a tiny potted cactus.

From Literature

Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old “rose engine,” he peered through a microscope at a small, square slab of German silver illuminated by a gooseneck lamp.

From Los Angeles Times

From their home and studio on the industrial fringes of Ghent, the Belgian port city where they met while attending art school, the couple collaborate on pieces that seem both comfortingly familiar and wondrously new: a card table sprouting a gooseneck lamp, shelves that fan out into the air like phantom steps, a chair and chaise joined at right angles, as though for therapist and patient.

From Wall Street Journal

When I read Bishop’s “12 O’Clock News,” for instance, in which the objects arrayed on the writer’s desk — the gooseneck lamp, the typed sheet, the envelopes, the ink bottle — become stand-ins for a mythical landscape, I can’t help thinking of the still lifes of vases, jars and books that Ghirri photographed in the painter Giorgio Morandi’s studio.

From New York Times

Stubby pencils and paper, and the command to “Try it!”: mash up two objects from your purse or backpack, or add gels, twist ties, and wire to customize a gooseneck lamp.

From The New Yorker