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

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wax light

Mr. Ebers took a telemarketing position at a company that sold floor wax, light bulbs and other maintenance products.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2011

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.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain

The use of the crystal sockets was evident, for one shaded wax light burned near me.

From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

When the crowd made their taper-offering, he took a wax light from the chorister and followed those who walked round the branch candlesticks mighty as trees, which burned at the four corners of the pall.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian by Henryk Sienkiewicz

My father sat down on the floor at the foot of my couch, where the wax light threw his shadow, exaggerating its unmoving profile.

From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood