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Definition of Streetlamps
1. streetlamp [n] - See also: streetlamp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Streetlamps
Literary usage of Streetlamps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"In Upland, where the old road features a number of recently installed retro-Route
66 streetlamps, there's a grass median strip graced by a statue of the ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"... to relight any streetlamps which require trimming. In case of fire, the watchmen
give signals from the church towers, by striking a number of strokes, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"But our motion, though upward, is slanting with the wind, and in another moment
out of the gloom the maze of streetlamps bursts upon us, for we have cleared ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"... answers mere negatory incoherences, panic interjections. And through the
shutters and crevices, in front or rearward, the dull streetlamps disclose only ..."
5. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"A young boy, certainly not a soldier, was cycling along slowly beneath the
streetlamps, looking furtively around. This was not a normal bike: above its ..."
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