arc lamp

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arc lamp (plural arc lamps)

  1. An electric arc arranged so as to produce useful light.
    Synonym: arclight
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 40, in Of Human Bondage:
      This led him to the station; and the square in front of it, vivid with arc-lamps, noisy with the yellow trams that seemed to cross it in all directions, made him laugh aloud with joy.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.

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