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Friar's lantern   /frˈaɪərz lˈæntərn/   Listen
Friar's lantern

noun
1.
A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground.  Synonyms: ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp.






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"Friar's lantern" Quotes from Famous Books



... chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat; She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various



Words linked to "Friar's lantern" :   ignis fatuus, light, visible radiation, will-o'-the-wisp, visible light



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