candlelit
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of candlelit
Example Sentences
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There will also be comedy at the Assembly Rooms and a candlelit folk music performance at St Giles' Cathedral.
From BBC
A candlelit concert in St Giles' Cathedral will feature the work of Bach and Mozart, while indie rock band Wet Leg headlines the Concert in the Gardens.
From BBC
In a small candlelit room in western Kenya, worshippers dressed in white gathered at Christmas to mark the birth of what they describe as the "Black Messiah".
From Barron's
Christmas often inspires visions of perfection: the geometrically precise tree, the artfully arranged mantel, the candlelit feast a flawless tableau.
When Harry and Ron and the other first-year students enter the Great Hall at Hogwarts for the ceremony that will sort them into their school houses, there’s so much going on in the background—music, giggles, footsteps—that the listener must strain to catch Ms. Jumbo describing the long tables in the candlelit room being laid “with glittering golden plates and goblets.”
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