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
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 Sinclair, May
The hanging white globes of the gaselier shone on them.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May
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
Slowly they were making for the doors, when the flames from the ceiling seemed to dart down and met the jets from the gaselier.
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