Lamplighter

(noun.) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights.

卡洛整理

• The lawyer turns, leans his arms on the iron railing at the top of the steps, and looks at the lamplighter lighting the court-yard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Twilight comes on; gas begins to start up in the shops; the lamplighter, with his ladder, runs along the margin of the pavement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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