Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lamp-shade or lamp-chimney of a globular form.
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Examples
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He raised his head instinctively, his hand on the lamp-globe.
Lorraine A romance 1899
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For instance, how are you to put a heavy copper jar together with the lamp-globe or the carbolic acid with the tea?
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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It is from this latter seat that the phosphorescence proceeds in _Oceania pilata_, the form which gives out such a light that Ehrenberg compared it to a lamp-globe lighted by a flame.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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The old hand on the table that had little more strength in it than when it wore a hedger's glove near eighty years ago, closed with the grip of all the force it had, and the lamp-globe rang as the tremor of his arm shook the table.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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The sphere of beauty was a glass lamp-globe for delirious moths.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The rays of the lamp-globe showed her that the face of her husband had a strange expression.
The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868
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The sphere of beauty was a glass lamp-globe for delirious moths.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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The sphere of beauty was a glass lamp-globe for delirious moths.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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