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lampion

[ lam-pee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.


lampion

/ ˈlæmpɪən /

noun

  1. an oil-burning lamp
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of lampion1

1840–50; < French < Italian lampione carriage or street light, augmentative of lampa lamp
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lampion1

C19: from French via Italian lampione, from Old French lampe lamp
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Example Sentences

I have not seen a strike of this intensity since 1923," said the burly boss of the Liege steelworkers, Robert Lampion, adding ominously, "We have no financial problem.

That French chap, Lampion told me all about it.

By the way, the Acadiens on Bayou La Fourche in Louisiana have the same 'lampion' light!

And Sol, his sire, Meeting him as he fell, caught up in hand The ever-blazing lampion of the world, And drave together the pell-mell horses there And yoked them all a-tremble, and amain, Steering them over along their own old road, Restored the cosmos,—as forsooth we hear From songs of ancient poets of the Greeks— A tale too far away from truth, meseems.

And possibly the sun, Agleam on high with rosy lampion, Possesses about him with invisible heats A plenteous fire, by no effulgence marked, So that he maketh, he, the Fraught-with-fire, Increase to such degree the force of rays.

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