Definition of "sunlamp" []

• A lamp that radiates ultraviolet rays used in therapeutic and cosmetic treatments. (noun)
• A high-intensity lamp with parabolic mirrors, used in photography. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So I bought a powerful sunlamp online and sat in front of it for twenty minutes each morning as I ate my oatmeal."
• "Then he plugged in his only other lamp, which was a sunlamp."
• "Dressed in a blue sport jacket and tanned by a sunlamp that had been wheeled into his suite that afternoon, Eisenhower delivered an upbeat greeting in which he urged the Republicans on to victory in the fall."