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Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
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gaslight
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context British English) The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas. 2 (context British English) A lamp which operates by burning gas. vb. (context slang English) To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity. ...
Wikipedia
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The Gaslight was an automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan by the Gaslight Motors Company from 1960-c.1961. The Gaslight was a venture that built a replica-style veteran car, based on the 1902 Rambler . It was built with a modern air-cooled single-cylinder ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An advocate of progress in all forms, Wilson was the first in his area to illuminate his premises with gaslight . ▪ He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight . ▪ His bearded face ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaslight \Gas"light`\, n. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. A gas jet or burner.
Usage examples of gaslight.
Annie into a book-lined room and lit the gaslight in the gaselier and then the gas fire in the grate, which came alive with a loud, noisy pop.
She held a knife up near the unshielded gaslight, a huge, triangular bladed knife that flashed like a sheet of silver.
Downstairs in his book-lined study, he turned up the gaslight and tugged the list from a waistcoat pocket.
Standing in darkness with her three pursuers silhouetted against the glow of gaslight in the foyer, Eleanor had a slight advantage.
With the gaslight flickering softly on the keys and the subliminal rus-de of petticoats in his ears, he could almost believe himself in Paris again, and happy.
He turned back to Shaw, the gaslight glittering on the lace at his throat and wrists.
An occasional glimmer of soft gaslight through colored curtains flickered through the trees like a fashionable ghost to show where houses stood, but even those grew more sparse as the road got worse.
Fern remained behind, the gaslight giving his haunted features the appearance of wax.
He can work in sunlight or gaslight, be a monk or a libertine, seven years old or seventy, and all the paintings will achieve the same architectual, impersonal perfection.
Even in the gaslight, I could see the signs of disease on her face, could even smell it on her breath, but she thought me shy rather than wary and would not leave me alone.
He turned on the gaslight, sat by it, and pulled up another chair for Melvin Bean.
Only from the tennis-court building, in its secluded corner of the famous demesne, did gleams of gaslight faintly mitigate the dank, muffling vapour.
He panted and sweated, and his face, in the gaslight at the corner stanchion, gleamed in oily unhealth.
She lowered her head, the gaslight touching a delicate profile, a face haunted by doubt.
His earrings caught the gaslight and sparked unexpectedly from the shadows of his long hair.