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gaslightgas‧light /ˈɡæs-laɪt/ noun - 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.
► Gas/Coal/Oilanthracite, nounblack gold, nounblowout, nounboost, nounbunker, nounbutane, nounCalor gas, nounclinker, nouncoal, nouncoal bunker, nouncoalfield, nouncoal gas, nouncoal hole, nouncoalhouse, nounCoalite, coalman, nouncoal mine, nouncoke, nouncolliery, nouncrude, noundrill, verbdrilling platform, nounflue, nounfossil fuel, noungallery, noungas, noungasholder, noungaslight, noungasman, noungas meter, noungasometer, noungasworks, noungusher, nouninternal combustion engine, nounlead-free, adjectivelignite, nounmethane, nounnatural gas, nounoctane, nounoil, nounoil-bearing, adjectiveoilfield, nounoil-fired, adjectiveoilman, nounoil rig, nounoil slick, nounoil tanker, nounoil well, nounOPEC, nounopencast, adjectiveparaffin, nounpilot light, nounpit pony, nounpremium, nounpropane, nounrig, nounroughneck, nounsolid fuel, nounstrike, nounwell, nounwick, nounwildcat, verb 1[uncountable] the light produced from burning gas2[countable] (also gas lamp) a lamp in a house or on the street which gives light from burning gas |