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单词 gig-lamp
释义 ˈgig-lamp
[f. gig n.2 + lamp.]
1. One of the lamps at either side of a gig.
transf.1888Froude Eng. W. Ind. xv. 248 Fireflies..with two long antennæ, at the point of each of which hangs out a blazing lanthorn. The unimaginative colonists call them gig-lamps.
2. pl. Spectacles. slang.
1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green iii, ‘Looks ferociously mild in his gig-lamps!’ remarked a third, alluding to Mr. Verdant Green's spectacles.1887Punch 30 July 45/1 Jack's a straw-thatched young joker in gig-lamps.
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