Mazdan.
/ˈmazdə/, U.S. /ˈmɑzdə/, /ˈmæzdə/ Chiefly U.S.
A make of electric light bulb. More fully Mazda bulb, Mazda lamp.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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1910 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 1 Jan. 3/8 (advt.) We announce the ‘brilliant’ Mazda incandescent lamp.
1920 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 189 27 The energy was determined in the spectrophotometric laboratory..by a substitution method of comparison with a radiometrically calibrated Mazda lamp.
1939 C. Odets Rocket to Moon in Six Plays 385 I mean that sort of mazda glow in your eyes.
1970 New Yorker 14 Mar. 33/1 Softly and lovingly the bedroom mazdas bathed him.
1999 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 8 Apr. 3 The..lamp made of a coconut cut in half and festooned with shells and an old Mazda bulb.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1910- pay agent
- pay agreement
- pay an account
- pay and rations
- pay any one in his own coin
- pay at the stub
- pay attention or one's attention to
- pay award
- pay away
- pay back
- pay bargaining
- pay bill
- pay boarder
- pay both scot and lot
- pay both scot and scot
- pay both scot and to pay lot
- pay bridge
- pay cable
- pay car
- pay channel
- peg cutter
- peg doll
- peg float
- peg hole
- peg house