Lampadrome
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek
Proper noun
Lampadrome
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A race run by young men carrying lighted torches.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Lampadrome in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)