Lampadrome
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editLampadrome
- (Ancient Greece) A race run by young men carrying lighted torches.
See also
edit- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)