chandler
noun
a person who makes or sells candles and sometimes other items of tallow or wax, as soap.
chandlers
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pluralof chandler.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The duo had originally envisaged their project as a way to revive specific arts-and-crafts traditions, sourcing lacemakers, glass blowers and chandlers from Vienna to Milan to their native Cairo.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
Harbor Ship Supply is among the shrinking ranks of ship chandlers, a name that derives from the French word for candles, once a key item onboard ship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
“It was not only the merchants trading in enslaved human beings who profited but barrel-makers, brothel-keepers, chandlers, candle-makers, carpenters, dockworkers, inn-keepers, laundresses, sailors, sail-makers and shoemakers,” Carby writes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2019
Theatrical chandlers, Alasdair Flint and Gerry Jeatt, showed them how to work the rigging that would make the curtain rise and fall.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2011
My estimation of captains and ship chandlers wavered.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
