wax light

American  

noun

1. a candle made of wax.

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wax light British  

noun

1. a candle or taper of wax

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Etymology

Origin of wax light

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

A table was magnificently laid for fifty or more, and the place was brilliantly illuminated by means of lustres with hundreds of wax lights.

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Our eyes alone showed life as they reflected the bright wax lights in the candlesticks.

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The plan was this:— Some small squat wax lights, used by nurses to “watch baby,” were procured.

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The wax lights on the dressing-table, and the unsnuffed dip with which the old housekeeper lit us through endless passages, leave all the corners dark.

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If a man had three or four of these little creatures, which are not larger than a filbert, he could read as well at night as with a wax light.

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