Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An upright standard with a broad base, serving to hold one or more lamps.
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Examples
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He picked his nose far too often, and innumerable times I'd curse him if I found a vagrant snot-ball, relaxing dreamily beneath the lamp-stand.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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He picked his nose and innumerable times I'd curse him if I found a vagrant snot-ball relaxing dreamily beneath the lamp-stand.
We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red Ivan R. 2011
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He picked his nose far too often, and innumerable times I'd curse him if I found a vagrant snot-ball, relaxing dreamily beneath the lamp-stand.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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I touched a lamp-stand, marveling at the smoothness of gold.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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He took a taper to the little clay day-lamp which kept a source of fire, and kindled the cluster on the big branched lamp-stand.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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The modern brass-work of Jaipur is somewhat attractive, and we bought various articles -- a tall lamp-stand, an elephant bell, and a few ordinary bowls of excellent shape.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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But she had a secret object -- to regain possession of the paper spiral that lay there neglected, its pin sticking up beside the lamp-stand.
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I write this before daybreak by the carved wood lamp-stand, in which I take great delight, because they tell me that you had it made when you were at Samos.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A drug store with a soda fountain that was just huge, awful long, and all lovely marble; and on it there was a great big lamp with the biggest shade you ever saw -- all different kinds colored glass stuck together; and the soda spouts, they were silver, and they came right out of the bottom of the lamp-stand!
Main Street 1920
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A drug store with a soda fountain that was just huge, awful long, and all lovely marble; and on it there was a great big lamp with the biggest shade you ever saw -- all different kinds colored glass stuck together; and the soda spouts, they were silver, and they came right out of the bottom of the lamp-stand!
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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