Definition of "dark-lantern" []

• Alternative form of dark lantern. (noun)

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• "On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar."
• "An old dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on the chimney-piece."
• "The street and the barricade remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern."