Lampadrome

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Lampadrome

1. (Ancient Greece) A race run by young men carrying lighted torches.

See also

• Lampadephoria (probably the same thing)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Lampadrome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)