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Aladdin lamp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
Yeah, and you didn't- and mum didn't have to worry about those- the Aladdin lamps gave you a lot of light but they had those mantles kind-of...
Type of old lamp
ExampleMeaning
...out there after Tom came back, he had had just an icebox for a refrigerator and just ah ah aladdin-lamps and ah- or- and ah- and a wood stove. And ah- which would get hotter than heck and...
Type of old lamp
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...ah, I should say that we- that light there is from the old place, that's the Aladdin lamp. It was a coal oil light. And- and that was one of the other ones, they...
Type of old lamp
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So, before you had electricity what did you use for lights? Speaker: Well, coal oil lamps mostly. And we had a- I don't know there they got it, they called it an Aladdin-lamp at that time. It was a- a high, like the glass was high and it- just about that round and it had, ah- oh, I can't think of what- it had a kind of a cone shaped thing that fitted over the- the flame.
Type of old lamp