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.
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Gimcracks in an �tag�re; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various
My aunt sat on a straight, hard chair and stared fixedly at the three-armed gaselier.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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.
The one lighted burner of the gaselier, turned too high, hissed up into a long tongue of flame.
From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Kipling, Rudyard
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