What is "cressets"

Usage examples of "cressets".

All the candles were lit in the cressets and wooden chandeliers, and the long room was packed with customers of every sort, from foreign mercenaries with odd accents to middle-aged merchants sweating under the weight of many-pocketed display coats.

Irishman lean toward one of the still-burning wall cressets, puff the snake alight, and plod on, trailing clouds of white smoke.

The table candles and wall cressets would not be lit for another hour or so, and shadows were proliferating in the corners and under the chairs.

Hoddan and his weary followers rode up into the patch of light cast by the cressets outside the walls.

Guinalda stood: He saw her drink to him and he saw that her eyes were regarding him, but the distance was too great and the light of the pitch torches and the oil cressets too dim for him to see whether her glance carried a message of friendship or dislike.

There was even a gonfalon of Old Kzin, and some of the artificial lights shone from cressets of antique appearance.

As servants brought candles for the table and set several torches in wall cressets, Rhun steered the discussion in less hysterical directions.