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gaslight
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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. ...
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Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery- thriller film , adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's 1938 play Gas Light , about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. The 1944 version was the second version to be filmed, ...
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.