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
At the long table, under the hanging gaselier, in shirt sleeves and apron, Mr. Ransome stood.
From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair
Above it, a handsome gilt gaselier spread out its branches, and on this gaselier as many as three gas-jets burned furiously at once.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
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
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 Frank Froest
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