Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gas or other lamp used for illuminating a street.
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- noun Alternative form of
street lamp .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As years ago the flamelet of the street-lamp, so now these outposts of the colossal embryo of a world derided me and seemed to point me out and away.
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Late during night, Institute of Technology skechers shoesfollowed by a street-lamp lit up.
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Fog hung around the street-lamp lights, the air wet and cold.
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Fog hung around the street-lamp lights, the air wet and cold.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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The famous Railton place, which had secrets walkin to and fro, talking of Lord knows seen many 9 what mischief, stood in darkness, the front door bright and clear in the light from the nearby street-lamp.
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Fog hung around the street-lamp lights, the air wet and cold.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Fog hung around the street-lamp lights, the air wet and cold.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Billboard stanchions are twisted into strange angles, and massive highway signs and street-lamp posts are wrenched into drunken poses.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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Billboard stanchions are twisted into strange angles, and massive highway signs and street-lamp posts are wrenched into drunken poses.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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