cruisie
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Apparently an alteration of French creuset.
Noun edit
cruisie (plural cruisies)
- (chiefly Scotland, now historical) An oil-burning lamp.
- 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
- Besides the articles of plate which I have already noticed, the old man now lighted and placed on the table a silver lamp, or cruisie, as the Scottish term it […] .
- 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 277:
- The cruisie lamps gave a dim, yellowish light but he could make out a prominent, slightly hooked nose and large dark eyes set into an oval face.