lampiste
Meanings
Noun
1. lampmaker, an artisan who makes and sells lamps (archaic)
2. a person charged with maintaining oil or kerosene lamps in an establishment (such as a monastery, theater, boarding home)
3. a worker responsible for maintaining lamps and for issuing them from the lamp room at the start of a shift; lampman (mining, railroad)
4. fall guy (worker who bears the blame or punishment for a superior's failure or misdeed) (figuratively)