[
US
/ˈɫæmˌpɫaɪtɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈæmplaɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈæmplaɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
How To Use lamplighter In A Sentence
- A bit before the sun broke upon the horizon, the lamplighter put out the lamps that lined the streets.
- We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
- Elevator operators, typesetters, and airplane navigators have followed milkmaids and lamplighters into oblivion.
- Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue! Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
- These days they want to know about the history of people who were not kings or queens, but weavers and miners, felling hands and lamplighters.
- To the cold and weary citizens out on the streets back then, the lamplighter is a very comforting sight. Convergence and Deregulation in the Energy Marketplace
- Did you not see it? he bellowed at Laurie, our lamplighter. Exit the Actress
- We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
- The poignant opening is a description of him as a child, fascinated by moving light, watching the lamplighter come up the street lighting the lamps.
- A lamplighter was up a ladder, replacing the candle in one of the hanging lanterns in the square. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY