Definition of "lanthorns" [lanthorns]

• Plural form of lanthorn. (noun)

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• ""lanthorns" as well as candlesticks; others a spinning-wheel for the good wife, when she "keepit close the house and birlit at the wheel.""
• "And behold, there appeared cressets and lanthorns and flambeaux and up came the army of women."
• "So he opened the door, and Ala al-Din fared forth and walked on, with the dogs barking at his heels, and he went forwards through the dark when behold, he saw the door of a mosque standing open and, entering the vestibule, there took shelter and concealment; and suddenly a light approached him and on examining it he saw that it came from a pair of lanthorns borne by two slaves before two merchants."