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"oil lamp" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a type of lamp that uses oil as fuel to produce light. This phrase can be used in various contexts, such as describing a historical setting or talking about lighting options in a home. An example sentence is: "Illuminated by the warm glow of an oil lamp, the room exuded a cozy and rustic atmosphere."
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oil lamp
noun
A simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a liquid fuel source.
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Still lodged in the rubble was a computer monitor, an oil lamp, onions and bedsprings.
The walls' creamy paint colors contain historically accurate doses of linseed oil, lamp black and milk.
I turn on an oil lamp and write to you: Dear X — Where are you?
7. The Lily Flower oil lamp sits atop a 31-inch stake.
Included are a footlong egg-shaped tray, a base for an oil lamp, pocketbooks and hats.
Through a window, the glow of an oil lamp was visible.
An oil lamp stands ready by his desk; power cuts are frequent.
As a child, he used to study by the light of an oil lamp.
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There the story unspools in Eva's diary entries, scratched in the half-light of a linseed-oil lamp.
In ancient Babylon, it took more than 50 hours to pay for that light from a sesame-oil lamp.
You could imagine the kind of light a whale-oil lamp would have cast on the corner of some Victorian street.
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