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名詞

lightmans (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The day.
   • 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candle-light‎^[1]:

     And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.

   • 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman

     Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?

   • 2012, Ross, Kate, A Broken Vessel:

     Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.