Definition of "lamplighters" []

• Plural form of lamplighter. (noun)

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• "A mother cat and her new litter are nestled into a pile of loose sacking against the next house, the lamplighters are working to repair the lamp across the street, and the baker and his wife are having a row in their house on the corner."
• "He is so self-assured that he commits several cardinal sins, according to the recipes of writing workshops: he always starts in media res, he never explains terms Circus, mole, lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, wranglers, inquisitors and he shifts viewpoints constantly and unapologetically."
• "But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all-women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund might no longer be the most despised soul around."