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1. A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn. An obsolete occupation since lights are now electric, most likely seen in the works of such authors as Charles Dickens, often appearing as a symbolic lightbringing figure.

Derived terms
lamplighter group (in mathematics)

References
R:Webster 1913

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