blind lantern

English

Noun

blind lantern (plural blind lanterns)

1. A dark lantern. [from 16th c.]
   • 1859, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Lionne, page 358:

     Another feeble wail from the infant. "'Tis a baby, sartain ! I'll go and get a blind lantern!" exclaimed the woman.

   • 1944, Gertrude Robinson, Fox Fire, page 33:

     From the folds of his robe he brought out a blind lantern, a fat, stubby candle within set in a hard pine socket.

   • 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 29:

     [S]he was moved to compassion and sprung out of the pot like the light of a candle comes out of a blind lantern [translating lanterna a bota].