reading-lamp
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Noun[edit]
reading-lamp (plural reading-lamps)
- A small indoor lamp designed to be used for reading at night.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "I value my electric reading-lamp, and that is a product of science."
- 1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 173:
- [...] and the neat reading lamps on the underside of the luggage racks, under passenger control, are an attractive feature of the first class compartments.