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gaselier

British  
/ ˌɡæsəˈlɪə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of gasolier

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The stairway, lighted with bronze statues holding a gaselier on each newel post, led to the private upstairs chapel, later converted into a billiard room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scene V.—The Dining-room; walls distempered chocolate; gaselier with opal-tinted globes; two cast-iron Cavaliers holding gas-lamps on the mantel-piece.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

My aunt sat on a straight, hard chair and stared fixedly at the three-armed gaselier.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Slowly they were making for the doors, when the flames from the ceiling seemed to dart down and met the jets from the gaselier.

From Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 by Anonymous

At the long table, under the hanging gaselier, in shirt sleeves and apron, Mr. Ransome stood.

From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair

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