Lexic.us

Definition of Kerosine lamp

1. Noun. A lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerosine Lamp

Literary usage of Kerosine lamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... a large open thatched shed, which was brilliantly lighted up by a good kerosine lamp, which seemed strangely out of place in such a situation. ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"By the light of that kerosine lamp Tom saw as hard a face as he could have found in the territory—land of hard faces though it was. ..."

3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1879)
"Then he pulled out a portable kerosine lamp—(kerosine lamps are now as common in Japan as shrines by the road-side)—and the light it made, throwing entirely ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"Magazines and novels lay on the little table, on which stood a handsome kerosine lamp. A book-case, con- ; a capital selection of stand- About teu ..."

5. Two Happy Years in Ceylon by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1893)
"... is now very generally replaced, even in native huts, by a kerosine lamp, as the imported mineral oil, even after all its long journey from America, ..."

Other Resources: