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Aladdin's lamp   /əlˈædɪnz læmp/   Listen
Aladdin's lamp

noun
1.
(Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie.





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"Aladdin's lamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubloons—among which were submerged some fine jewels, such as this tie ring you see me wearing. Actually, it was no great treasure, at a monetary calculation—certainly no fortune—but from our romantic point of view, as belonging to the race of Eternal Children, it was El Dorado, Aladdin's lamp, the mines of Peru, the whole sunken Spanish Main, glimmering fifty fathoms deep in mother-of-pearl and the moon. It was the very Secret Rose of Romance; and, also, mark you, it was some money—O! perhaps, all told, it might be some five thousand guineas, or—what would ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... were. It had the additional merit of being easy and rapid in execution. Bramante was thus able to gratify the whims and caprices of his impatient patron, who desired to see the works of art he ordered rise like the fabric of Aladdin's lamp before his very eyes. Michelangelo is said to have exposed the architect's trickeries to the Pope; what is more, he complained with just and bitter indignation of the wanton ruthlessness with which Bramante set about his work ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds


Words linked to "Aladdin's lamp" :   Arabian Nights' Entertainment, lamp, Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Nights


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