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Lamplighter   Listen
noun
Lamplighter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., A person who in former times lighted street lamps which were illuminated by a combustible gas; such lamps are now little used, and primarily as nostalgic ornaments. "He made the night a little brighter Wherever he did go, The old lamplighter Of long, long ago."
2.
(Zool.) The calico bass.
3.
A device used to light lamps.





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"Lamplighter" Quotes from Famous Books



... them at the gate of St. Paul, and, giving up their horses, they got into a carriage. When they reached Trinita de' Monti the lamplighter was lighting the lamps on the steps of the piazza, and Roma said in a low voice, with a blush and ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... at the sight of these placards, the children read them as they returned in the evening from school; and little Babet in the vehemence of her indignation mounted a lamplighter's ladder, and tore down one of the papers. This imprudent action did not pass unobserved: it was seen by one of the spies of Citoyen Tracassier, a man who, under the pretence of zeal pour la chose publique, ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. 6 • Maria Edgeworth
... afterglow faded from the western sky and veil after veil of shadow crept stealthily out of the east, masking the rectangular, utilitarian ugliness of the street, deepening its dusk to darkness. Street lamps, touched by the flame-tipped wand of a belated lamplighter, bourgeoned spasmodically like garish flowers of the metropolitan night. Across the way gas-lit windows glowed like squares on some great, blurred checker-board. The roadway teemed with shrieking children. Somewhere—near at ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... A milk girl was going from door to door, and the lamplighter was vanishing in the distance. Yet "Cobbler" Horn flitted furtively across the way, as though he were afraid of being seen; and, having glided with the stealth of a burglar through the doorway of the little shop, found himself face to face with Tommy Dudgeon. The smile of ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth
... document, Moses Hayley is recognised as hereditary beadle, and Abraham Parker is placed in undisturbed possession of the post of waterman on the coach-stand in the outskirts. We are not among those who expect to find a spirit of propagandism prevailing in the policy of the powers of Pimlico. The lamplighter who lights the district is a man of sound discernment, and there is everything to hope from the moderation ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


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