Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lampadrome

Lampadrome , noun

[Greek {not transcribed}; {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, torch + {not transcribed} course, race, from {not transcribed} to run.]

(Greek Antiquities) 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.