Wall ornament aligned or skew-whiff

Usage examples of girandole.

She blew out the candles in the fancy girandole, making everything dark, since there was no way to remove the insignia now.

Silently Oliver handed her a pair of large, girandole earrings and she hooked them in.

A branch of candles stood on a girandole nearby, casting a good light on the face, and she studied it with a strange feeling of interest and regret.

The corners of this wonderful apartment were decked with all sorts of flags and weapons, and in the middle of the painted ceiling was suspended a huge bird with the spread wings of an eagle and the head of an owl, that held in its curved talons a superb girandole formed of a hundred extended swords, each bare blade having at its point a bright lamp in the shape of a star, while the clustered hilts composed the centre.

Cornwallis lit the candles on the bureau from those on the girandole he bore, then led Robert and Madame out onto the gallery again.

The room was lighted up by girandoles, which were reflected by the lookingglasses, and by four splendid candlesticks placed on a table covered with books.

All the candles in the sconces and girandoles had been lit, on orders of her extravagant aunt, no doubt.

I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him -- for he occupied an arm-chair drawn close to the fire, and kept shrinking still nearer, as if he were cold, I compared him with Mr.

Along the walls, edifices of polished wooden shelves lit by mirror-backed girandoles displayed ornamental silverware, tempting platters heaped with fruits and cakes, covered cheese dishes disguised as little milk churns or cottages, silver chafing dishes with ivory handles, and glowing braziers of pierced brass ready to warm food.

The High Table on its dais was so far removed from the opposite end of the Hall that those who graced it could scarcely be expected to discern the countenances of those seated at the lower trestles, or even the central onesa state of affairs that, despite the blaze of countless girandoles, lusters, and candelabra, was exacerbated by the soft haze of steam and incense filling the air.

At last, they came to a small saloon, hung with red damask, in which the principal article of furniture was a tall mirror of the French regency period, set on a gilt console and framed by a pair of bronze girandoles bearing clusters of lighted candles.

Catherine wheels, fizgigs, girandoles, twice-changing chrysanthemums, and golden palm trees.

Then the party returned to the terrace of the Court to watch a display of Roman candles, gillockes, and girandoles light the night sky.

She could see Betsy in the back of the room polishing the mirrored girandoles which hung along the walls.

Apparently finished with the girandoles, Betsy approached the window and put down her bucket.