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[ gas-lit ] / ˈgæsˌlɪt /
adjectivehaving illumination provided by burning gas: gaslit streets. of or resembling a time, especially the 1890s, when gaslight was widely used: the gaslit era. Origin of gaslitFirst recorded in 1830–40; gas + lit1 Words nearby gaslitgas laws, gaslight, gas lighter, gas-liquid chromatography, gas liquor, gaslit, gas log, gas main, gasman, gas mantle, gas mask Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gaslitSomething very energetic, certainly—to seize some drugs, perhaps, and rush excitedly with him through the gaslit streets. The Man from Archangel|A. Conan Doyle Captain George Percy Cavendish, standing at the window, looking abstractedly out at the starlit and gaslit street, was thinking. A Changed Heart|May Agnes Fleming Acting on impulse at last, she took council with John, securing him as her companion in the gaslit walk from a concert. Magnum Bonum|Charlotte M. Yonge In this gaslit gut of a place, which was as narrow and circumscribed as a gallery in a mine, one was well-nigh suffocated. Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille|Emile Zola
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