Astral lamp


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Related to Astral lamp: Argand lamp, hurricane lamp, girandoles
an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.

See also: Astral

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. We mean, of course, the astral lamp proper - the lamp of Argand, with its original plain ground-glass shade, and its tempered and uniform moonlight rays.
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THE NEXT evening the astral lamp was lighted earlier than usual, because Laurence was very much engaged in looking over the collection of portraits which had been his New-Year's gift from Grandfather.
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Modern furniture came into the town, and astral lamps were seen!
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