gas-lit

English

Adjective

gas-lit (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of gaslit.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 81:
      Meanwhile, Cripps and Limpet sat in the little sempiternally gas-lit wine-shop, and held an important conversation.
    • 1941 April, “The Why and the Wherefore: Hawes Junction Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 191 (the collision occurred in 1910):
      All four engines and the entire train were derailed, and owing to the fact that all the vehicles except the sleeping cars were gas-lit, the whole of the coaching stock except the two rear brakes was burned out, beginning with the two front coaches, which were completely wrecked.
    • 1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
      The approach to Rotherham is very slow indeed. The dim, gas-lit platform there is not graced with a traffic stop, much to the annoyance of Rotherham passengers who must retrace their steps by road from Sheffield.

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