wax light
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of wax light
First recorded in 1690–1700
Example Sentences
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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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Happily, reason comes to the rescue, and the priest and the cathedral, p. 5and the Mass and the music, the incense and wax lights, disappear.
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