Definition of "droplight" []

• A hanging lamp that can be lowered and raised on its cord. (noun)

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• "Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight."
• "They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight; while the younger people went into the drawing-room near by and talked."
• "The droplight over the music and the flare of the fire leaped out of the darkness like medallions."