lampiste
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑ̃.pist/
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Noun
lampiste m (plural lampistes)
- (archaic) lampmaker, an artisan who makes and sells lamps
- a person charged with maintaining oil or kerosene lamps in an establishment (such as a monastery, theater, boarding home)
- (mining, railroad) a worker responsible for maintaining lamps and for issuing them from the lamp room at the start of a shift; lampman
- (figuratively) fall guy (worker who bears the blame or punishment for a superior's failure or misdeed)
Further reading
- Annales des mines, partie administrative, ou Recueil de lois, décrets, arrètés et autres actes concernant les mines et usines, Tome IV, 370
- “lampiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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