Lanterns fitted with a lens or lenses, sometimes of knobbed or faceted glass to concentrate and intensify light. May be four-sided with lenses on three sides and a handle on the fourth, or have a lens on one side and a handle on the opposite side, or be cylindrical with a hinged door on which the lens or lenses are mounted.
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bull's-eye hand lanterns
bull's-eye lanterns
dark lanterns (bull's eye lanterns)
hand lanterns, bull's-eye
lanterns, bull's eye
lanterns, dark
lanterns, policemen's
policemen's lanterns
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