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
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
Gimcracks in an �tag�re: a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier.
From Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas by Anstey, F.
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
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 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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