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- noun Plural form of
glowlamp .
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Examples
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There remained now only the formalities'the drawing up of the documents (clerks were working feverishly by the light of glowlamps) and the signing of the documents to make all legal and official.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind’s darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds.
Ulysses 2003
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