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/ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/ · noun
(historical) A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn..
1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter.
[…] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.
Use lamplighter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lamplighter means (historical) A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn..
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1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
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