A small lamp designed to be used on a bedside table or next to a bed.
From bed + lamp. This compound word emerged in the 19th century with the widespread availability of electric and gas lighting, referring to convenient lighting fixtures for bedrooms.
Bedlamps became essential Victorian home fixtures once electricity arrived, and they've barely changed in design—still small, still beside the bed, still helping people read before sleep!
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