Definitions
a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
Word origin
From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (“land”) + *berht (“bright”). Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.
Used in a sentence
“At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate”
“Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]””
“Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Brightness unit”7 letters
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