A lamp specially adapted to be kept burning during the night in a bedroom.(noun)
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Use "night-lamp" in a sentence
"For seven years I have never gone to bed without going first to see the light of her night-lamp, or her shadow on the window curtains."
"By the pale night-lamp he could see her sweet, pale face — the purple eyelids were fringed and closed, and one round arm, smooth and white, lay outside of the coverlet."
"The truth is, though she had been lying quite still and silent, she had not been asleep one instant, but had been looking at the night-lamp in the chimney, and had been thinking of Pen for hours and hours."