Definition of "gas-lamp" [gas-lamp]

• A lamp containing one or more fixtures supplied with gas-burners for giving light in a building or street. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Among its virtues is a feel for the gas-lamp Victorian world."
• "Then the door opened wide, and Diego grinned whitely at him in the light from a gas-lamp, gesturing him inside with a flamboyant fling of his arms."
• "In 1887, he acquired the factory Würth & Co. for chemical-pharmaceutical products in Atzgersdorf and moved the entire chain of production there, creating an affluent gas-lamp industry by improving his patent in the early 1890s."