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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LAMPADROME

Lam "pa *drome, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

 

Defn: A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.