gaselier
Britishnoun
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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 Lucas Malet
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
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 Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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 Rudyard Kipling
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