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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.

Every second wagon blinded them with its two glaring gig-lamps, and slapped up the mud on to their cheeks.

De old bloke pulled out er pair uv gig-lamps an' put 'em on, an' den he give me er grate sizin' up.

In another twenty minutes the lights of his gig lamps were raking the night.

I shall call him the Owl; he's just like one with those round gig-lamps.

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