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Definition of "night-lamp" []

  • A lamp specially adapted to be kept burning during the night in a bedroom. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

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."
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