gaslitadj.
/ˈɡaslɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡæsˌlɪt/ Illuminated by gaslight. Also figurative.
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1819 J. Scafe King Coal's Levee (ed. 2) 18 To the bright gas-lit dome our course again shall be.
1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xii. 141 He walked away down through the gas-lit streets to Fulham.
1922 Cent. Mag. Aug. 607/1 About, in the gaslit square, escorted, guarded, went other women, reputable women.
1988 Observer 28 Aug. 12/3 I speak of London publishing, which, in the year I saw my first book in print, still had a gaslit Dickensian quality about it.
2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians 3 The waiting-rooms in British Railways stations in the 1950s were still gaslit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1819- the pleasures of the table
- the plot thickens
- the point
- the point device
- the point where
- the polite world
- the politics
- the pomps and vanities of this wicked world
- the pool of london
- the pornography of violence
- the possessive
- the pot calls the kettle black
- the pot goes so long to the water that it is broken at last
- the pot goes so often to the water that it is broken at last
- the pot walks
- the potato
- the power five
- the power of five
- the power of imperation
- the powers that be
- the prater
- the precedent
- the prejudice of
- the present life
- the president's pay agent