lamplighter
3
9.9
- noun
- /ˈlæmˌplaɪtər/
- Archaic
:
encendedor de faroles
- They called in at a wineshop, where lamplighters were taking a break from their rounds.
Examples
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Past the stalls, a lamplighter made his way down the street, stringing beads of orange light atop the line of lamp posts.
Fiction book (2002) -
Why, it's what we lamplighters call ourselves, of course.
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He means what about you and that handsome lamplighter, Jack?
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All us lamplighters know what a fine job you're doing for the workers.
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At intervals along the boulevards, lamplighters set their gay fires.
Fiction book (1990) -
I learn that the lamplighters are "in the practice of extinguishing the lights in the lamps at certain hours in the nighttime upon the rising of the moon."
Academic text (2004) -
The narrow streets, with their houses so close that a man could lean out his window and light the pipe of his neighbor next door, were sinking into an enveloping darkness, dispelled here and there by the hopeful work of lamplighters making their rounds.
Fiction book (1993) -
As dusk approached, the lamplighter walked down the street, lighting each gas lamp along the way.
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With a long pole in hand, the lamplighter carefully extinguished the streetlights at dawn.
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Every evening, the lamplighter would go out to illuminate the dimly lit corners of the city.
Synonyms
A person who lit and cared for street lamps before electric lights
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lamplighter is made of lamp and lighter, and can be read as 'one who lights lamps'. Before electric lights, a lamplighter walked the streets at dusk to light the gas lamps, so the word reminds us of the person who lit street lamps.