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spirit lamp

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Definition:
a lamp which burns alcohol or some other volatile spirit.

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At the stove stood Leni, in a white apron as always, breaking eggs into a pot standing on a spirit lamp.

Franz Kafka. The Trial
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A cloth was laid on a round table, and on it stood a china tea service and a silver spirit-lamp and tea kettle.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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