girandola
- a variation of girandole.
Example Sentences
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But with regard to workmanship, it was more beautiful than any other girandola that had ever been made up to that time.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Vasari, Giorgio
The Roman air did not agree with me, and I hastened, therefore, as soon as I had seen the illumination of the dome and the girandola, immediately after the Easter festival, through Terracina to Naples.
From True Story of My Life by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
"Our girandola is second only to that of St. Peter," he said, smiling.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
Irradiations in gold, scintillations in crimson, splendors in emerald, lucidities in ultramarine—a dazzling girandola of every tint and of every hue.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
At night at Torlonia’s to see the girandola, which is as fine as fireworks can be, but nothing will do after the illumination of St. Peter’s.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry
