Why this word is great
LAMPLIGHT — [Noun] The particular quality of illumination cast by an artificial, enclosed source, a circumscribed pool of warmth against the encompassing dark. From Middle English lampe lyght, a compound of lamp (from Old French lampe, from Latin lampas, from Greek lampas, "torch, lamp") and light (from Old English lēoht, "light, brightness"). Unlike the sovereign, impersonal decree of "sunlight" or the harsh, performative glare of the "limelight," lamplight is intimate, intentional, and tended. It is the amber pool on a page in a midnight study, the gentle corona that haloes a kitchen table at dusk, the quiet bloom in a window seen from a wet street—a modest, human-made victory against the vast, unlit indifference, purchased anew each evening.