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Jack-o'-lantern

noun

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

Lantern carved from a pumpkin.

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"Jack-o'-lantern" Quotes from Famous Books

... before the wheel, and in it sat smoking cigar after cigar from the Indian D box, half-asleep, yet conscious. The moon came up into a pretty cloudless sky, and she was bright, but not bright enough to out-shine the enlightened flight of the ocean, which that night was one continuous swamp of Jack-o'-lantern phosphorescence, a wild but faint luminosity mingled with stars and flashes of brilliance, the whole trooping unanimously eastward, as if in haste with elfin momentous purpose, a boundless congregation, in the sweep ...

— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel

... proved his wisdom. When he returned in a very short time from that ever-to-be-famous spring, with his brimming kettle, he found a glorious fire, and three tired but cheerful fellows watching it, its reflection playing like a jack-o'-lantern ...

— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook

Words linked to "Jack-o'-lantern" : light, ignis fatuus, lantern, visible radiation, visible light