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lamplit en · ADJ

Etymology

From lamp + lit.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Illuminated by a lamp or lamps.
    • He stood a moment on the threshold, smiling contentedly around the lamplit room. 1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter I, page 252:
    • The hours spent there by Corvick were present to my fancy as those of a chessplayer bent with a silent scowl, all the lamplit winter, over his board and his moves. 1896, Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet, page 37: