argand lamp

plural argand lamps

1. Alternative letter-case form of Argand lamp.

   […] and Emily arrived in inglorious safety among the argand lamps and rosewood tables in Mr. Delawarr's drawing-room […]

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 20

plural Argand lamps · alternative argand lamp

1. historicalA type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.

   It is probable that Loutherbourg used Argand lamps to achieve his startling effects of meteorology in the Eidophusikon in the mid 1780s.

   2007, Christopher Baugh, edited by Moody & O'Quinn, The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre 1730-1830, page 52

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   Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. I mean, of course, the astral lamp proper, and do not wish to be misunderstood — the lamp of Argand with its original plain ground-glass shade, and its tempered and uniform moonlight rays.

   1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture

   Synonyms: Argand burner, astral lamp, solar lamp