Bayou La Fourche in Louisiana have the same 'lampion' light!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Odious candles fumed and dribbled a sooty wax upon some (though by no means all) of these tables, and a green and orange lampion with a torn shade swung in the center of the room, seeming to tremble at the high-pitched anger of the voices below it The backs of jostling onlookers obscured what was taking place there. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
The ever-blazing lampion of the world. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
A shammy mailsack, with the lend of a loan of the light of his lampion, off one of her swapsons, Shaun the Post, and then she went and consulted her chapboucqs, old Mot Moore, Casey’s. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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