gig-lamp

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gig +‎ lamp.

Noun[edit]

gig-lamp (plural gig-lamps)

  1. (now rare or historical) Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.
    • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1257:
      But once on the more secure purchase of the macadamised main road, their driver turned off his gig-lamps and let the passengers swell slowly into drowsy sleep as he set sail for distant Avignon.
  2. (in the plural, dated, slang) Spectacles.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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