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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lantern.

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Examples

  • A brick wall with a lanterned gate bordered Chase Street.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • A brick wall with a lanterned gate bordered Chase Street.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • A brick wall with a lanterned gate bordered Chase Street.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • I heard Jocasta murmur something to Ulysses; he summoned a small serving girl with a clap of his hands and sent her zooming off into the lanterned half-dark of the gardens, presumably in search of him.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The light was failing fast now, and the oil lights of the lanterned promenade began to dominate the gloaming.

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • The main point is that she went her selfish way undetected, so that the wide-lanterned search which presently arose for little Margaret tumbled and stumbled about clueless, and halted to take drinks, and came back about morning and lay down all day, and said it never did, which it certainly hadn't.

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • "I myself once passed within a mile of its outskirts at dusk, and saw the unholy little people's lanterned processions starting for the shrine of Queen Yang, who, tradition says, killed herself and a thousand babies with her when we took this land."

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • There were private yachts, Adriatic liners, all brilliant with illumination, and hundreds of gondolas, bobbing, bobbing, like captive leviathans, bunched round the gaily-lanterned barges of the serenaders.

    The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901

  • "I myself once passed within a mile of its outskirts at dusk, and saw the unholy little people's lanterned processions starting for the shrine of Queen Yang, who, tradition says, killed herself and a thousand babies with her when we took this land."

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • One by one the receding gondolas turned and came nearer, one bright eye gleaming at each prow, as they stole like conspirators upon the gaily lanterned barge.

    A Venetian June Anna Fuller 1884

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