"dark lantern" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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      "glosses": [
        "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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          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "dark lanthorn"
        },
        {
          "word": "dark-lantern"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Blendlaterne"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Diebslaterne"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "laindéar súile"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "potajnój fonárʹ",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "потайно́й фона́рь"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lantern with panel",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "blindlykta"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dark lantern"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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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        "historical"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "dark lanthorn"
    },
    {
      "word": "dark-lantern"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Blendlaterne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Diebslaterne"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "laindéar súile"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "potajnój fonárʹ",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "потайно́й фона́рь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lantern with panel",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "blindlykta"
    }
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  "word": "dark lantern"
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