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
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
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
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
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