GASLIGHT


Meaning of GASLIGHT in English

noun

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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 was monstrous in the gaslight .

It dates back to 1863, to a Victorian London of slums, of gaslight , of the powerless and the poor.

The gaslights flickered softly, and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.

The age of gaslight , I think you called it.

The shadows are like black pits and the gaslight is too bright.

There was no gaslight in the apartments; only kerosene lamps glowed in the windows.

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