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the warm liar that makes everyone look like a Renaissance painting at 9pm
means The soft, glowing illumination cast by a lamp, especially the warm light associated with evenings indoors or old streetlit nights.
from A plain English compound of "lamp" and "light," both ancient workhorses of the language. "Lamp" came into English from Old French lampe, drawn from Latin lampas and ultimately Greek lampas, "torch," from lampein, "to shine." "Light" is pure Germanic stock, related to Old English leoht and a cousin of words across the Germanic and even broader Indo-European family. Stitch them together and you get a word that has glowed steadily since the days when the only thing holding back the dark was a wick and some oil.
- color temp
- around 2700 kelvin, deliberately mimicking firelight
- melatonin friendly
- warm tones disturb sleep less than blue light
- lamplighters
- a real job lighting gas lamps each dusk
- flatters skin
- low warm light hides flaws, boosts attraction
- london gas
- some streets still lit by gas flame today
gas lamps of london — over 1,500 victorian gas lamps still lit nightly in westminster and the city of london
scrooge's lamplight scene — a christmas carol (1843) features the iconic scene where scrooge walks past lamplighters in foggy london streets