lamplight

[ lamp-lahyt ]

noun

1. the light lights thrown by a lamp.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamplight¹

First recorded in 1570–80; lamp + light ¹

Example Sentences

Around Viola’s felled tree, lamplights of historical knowledge flicker like electrified fireflies.

From Los Angeles Times

The men gazed back like mongooses caught in lamplights.

From Literature

No lamplight shone through the window into the front yard.

From Literature

His memories, he says, “are still tinged with the lamplight of that era” before electricity.

From Los Angeles Times

Two hours and a rapid PCR test later, I sat in the dark of a tent, watching as two young women formed a kind of Pietà in a pool of warm yellow lamplight.

From New York Times