? Obs. exc. Antiq. [ad. L. lucerna, f. luc- ablaut-variant of lūc-, lūx light.] A lamp, lantern.
a. 1500. Envoy to Alison, 23 (Skeat’s Chaucer, VII. 360). Lucerne a-night, with hevenly influence Illumined.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxxxv. 3. Lucerne in derne, for to discerne Be glory and grace devyne.
1883. C. C. Perkins, Ital. Sculpture, III. iv. 375. A multitude of wreaths, tablets, masks, festoons, lucernes, genii holding lyres [etc.].
