arc lamp

noun

Definitions

  1. An electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light.

    • This led him to the station; and the square in front of it, vivid with arc-lamps, noisy with the yellow trams that seemed to cross it in all directions, made him laugh aloud with joy.
    • The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.

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