gig-lamp

gig-lamp

English

Etymology

From gig +‎ lamp.

Noun

gig-lamp (plural gig-lamps)

1. (now rare or historical) Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.
   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1257:

     But once on the more secure purchase of the macadamised main road, their driver turned off his gig-lamps and let the passengers swell slowly into drowsy sleep as he set sail for distant Avignon.

2. (in the plural, dated, slang) Spectacles.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary