rush candle

American  

noun

1. a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.

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Etymology

Origin of rush candle

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

At this window, but a few paces away, she found her daughter awaiting her, and by the light of the rush candle that she carried she saw that the girl's face was deadly white.

From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn

The radiance of sunlight might well have been less than the blaze of a rush candle before the staggering brilliancy.

From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell

He lighted a rush candle and looked about him.

From The Thirsty Sword by Leighton, Robert

Upon a little three-legged stool, between them, burns a dim rush candle, whose light is so exceedingly feeble that it casts ghastly and death-like shadows over the whole inside of the cabin.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

Clelia Alba rose with effort from her chair, relighted her lamp at the old woman's rush candle, and went slowly and heavily up the stairs.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida