gaselier
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
When, therefore, at this juncture the three eyes of the Lovegroves' dining-room gaselier winked slowly, and closed their lids—so to speak—ceasing to watch and to supplicate, he suffered no self-reproach.
From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas
The one lighted burner of the gaselier, turned too high, hissed up into a long tongue of flame.
From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Kipling, Rudyard
A three-light gaselier beat down on a big table in the centre of the room, round three sides of which were ranged a dozen or fifteen men eagerly intent on the operations of the banker.
From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank
Large mirrors: cut-glass gaselier, supplemented by two standard lamps with yellow shades.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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