Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.
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- adjective Without a
lamp or lamps;unlit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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TVs and Blu-ray Disc players with 3D and Internet Streaming capabilities, home theater receivers and separates, more video projectors employing "lampless" LED technology, whole house audio and video servers, wireless subwoofers, in-wall speaker options, central control systems, and more.
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After independence, Tata became a state-protected monopoly known for trucks that, as the humorist, P.J. O'Rourke, once wrote, "blunder down the road ... brakeless, lampless, on treadless tires, moving dog fashion with the rear wheels headed in a direction the front wheels aren't."
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After independence, Tata became a state-protected monopoly known for trucks that, as the humorist, P.J. O'Rourke, once wrote, "blunder down the road ... brakeless, lampless, on treadless tires, moving dog fashion with the rear wheels headed in a direction the front wheels aren't."
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They all concurred in the need for this course, and proceeded to the antique and lampless back street, in which the red curtain of the Three Tuns was the only radiant object.
The Woodlanders 2006
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With stars and moon, or, as to-night, lampless and shuttered, it was a great companion.
Over the River 2004
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Such as ghosts dream dwell in the lampless deep, 245
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But did you dream the thousands of slaves, both Plainsman and elf, who wear the Istar-ian collars, laboring in their households and markets on their swarming docks and in their lampless mines?
The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994
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They ride on up to where Pavel's sniffing synthetic gasoline on the side of the lampless beige hill, under the tanks snailing whitely to heaven, here he is, one of the IG's happiest customers ....
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The priests 'house was silent, lampless and without smoke.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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We traversed the valley, mounted the hill on the other side, and at last entered the deeper night of a lampless village, and began to thread its steep, black streets.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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