The word "lamp" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a device that produces light or decorative lighting, or to refer to a type of electrical or gas-powered lighting fixture. For example, "The room was flooded with light from the bright yellow lamp."
"We actually had to bring our own little oil lamp or homemade candles for some of the school sessions".
Give me a blanket, a standard lamp, a boiling kettle and about three square feet of floorspace and I'll hand you back a baby that's as docile and contented as a wagyu cow.
However well-rehearsed, quick changes are frenzied interludes, conducted in the wings in near-darkness save for a gloomy desk lamp and a small mirror.
Hare complains that the soaring array of deaths in the latest series of The Bridge – bodies decomposed, bodies corrupting slowly from within, bodies bashed with lamp stands – is accompanied by none of the excitement in the wider world that would be needed to inculcate any sense of realism.
"It is right and essential that in this darkening world we give thanks for those who witness, who light the lamp of truth where it is being snuffed out by so many, not only by savage evil," he added.
Now he spends his days under a duvet at his home in Kent with a set of headphones, a reading lamp and a special high-tech microphone connected to the phone line.
If you want respect, you have to earn it.'" If you travel in a city during rush hour, the chances are you will have seen someone on a bicycle pull a stunt that, had it been perpetrated by a car driver, would have seen them dragged from the wheel and strung from the nearest lamp-post.
It was Burke who said, "statistics are more like a lamp-post to a drunk.
A magnifying glass or a pair of binoculars might be in order if you were trying to pick out the words "Fianna Fáil" on the party's election posters erected on lamp-posts in various Dublin constituencies.
Overall, it's far better to follow the advice of the American writer HL Mencken: "Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post".
On polling day the mood in Dhaka was calm, proud and even jolly.Countless lamp-posts, telegraph poles and trees had been draped with lines of string festooned with small, tattered black-and-white election flyers (an unintended if predictable consequence of a ban on colour posters and wall-pasting).
