"dark lantern" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 37:",
          "text": "“Yes,” continued the valet, “and sigh his soul to the last puff unobserved, liked the dying flame in a dark lanthorn.”",
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          "ref": "1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “With cat-like tread”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 35:",
          "text": "Your silent matches, / Your dark-lantern seize; / Take your file and your skeleton keys!",
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          "ref": "1891 [August, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure II.—The Red-Headed League.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II (July to December), number [8], London: […], page 201, column 2:",
          "text": "In the meantime, Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern.",
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          "ref": "1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1022:",
          "text": "The old monk who was the night-janitor of the monastery now appeared bearing in his hand a dark-lantern and a wattle basket with some fruit and a bowl of rice.",
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        "A lantern with a panel that slides to block the light."
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        "(now chiefly historical) A lantern with a panel that slides to block the light."
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            "obsolete"
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          "word": "dark lanthorn"
        },
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          "word": "dark-lantern"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Blendlaterne"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Diebslaterne"
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        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "laindéar súile"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "potajnój fonárʹ",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "потайно́й фона́рь"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
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            "common-gender"
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          "word": "blindlykta"
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  "word": "dark lantern"
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          "ref": "1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 37:",
          "text": "“Yes,” continued the valet, “and sigh his soul to the last puff unobserved, liked the dying flame in a dark lanthorn.”",
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        },
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          "text": "Your silent matches, / Your dark-lantern seize; / Take your file and your skeleton keys!",
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        },
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          "text": "In the meantime, Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern.",
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        },
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        "(now chiefly historical) A lantern with a panel that slides to block the light."
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      "word": "dark lanthorn"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
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      "word": "Blendlaterne"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "lantern with panel",
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "laindéar súile"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "potajnój fonárʹ",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "потайно́й фона́рь"
    },
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      "sense": "lantern with panel",
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      "word": "blindlykta"
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  "word": "dark lantern"
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