gaslight

A gaslight (noun sense 1) being lit by a lamplighter in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1953.

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Origin

  • From gas + light.
  • From the 1938 stage play Gas Light by the English playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), and its 1940 and 1944 film adaptations, in which a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment.

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