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Hanging light fixture
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chandelier
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling 2 (context auction English) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a wall. 3 (context obsolete military English) A portable frame used to support ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., chaundeler "candlestick, chandelier," from Old French chandelier (n.1), 12c., earlier chandelabre "candlestick, candelabrum" (10c.), from Latin candelabrum , from candela "candle" (see candle ). Re-spelled mid-18c. in French fashion; during 17c. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chandelier \Chan`de*lier"\, n. [F. See Chandler .] A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. (Fort.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [Obs.]
Usage examples of chandelier.
Gwen tried to take it all in as she walked: the sweeping staircase, the glittering chandelier, the murky landscapes and stern faced portraits, the acres of Kirmans and Bukharas and Aubussons, the profusion of antique furniture-predominantly English and all genuine, she guessed.
Brackets and chandeliers reflected in the polished backbar mirrors, and gleamed against the huge portrait of a buxom reclining nude.
It could have been an elegant eighteenth-century Parisian drawing room, with its Beauvias tapestry and works by Valesquez, Steen, Arthur Frick, and Cezanne on the walls, Boulle cabinet and desk, Louis XVI chairs and tables, Bohemian crystal chandelier, and enormous blood-red Bakhtiari carpet.
I had gone to get a bobache, a dripping plate on a chandelier, and the man who made the repairs was a saintly old man with a white halo of hair that the afternoon sun caught and made blaze.
As Bill descended from the chandelier after his third try, Bullneck took up a stand in front of the door, with straddled legs and drawn gun.
Bill descended from the chandelier after his third try, Bullneck took up a stand in front of the door, with straddled legs and drawn gun.
Travis preceded Condy, and turned up one of the burners in colored globe of the little brass chandelier.
The three-tier Czechoslovakian crystal chandelier was the only reminder of its once resplendent grandeur.
The ceiling lights were gasoliers, with brass arms and cut crystal cups for their bulbs, more ordinary yet more atmospheric than the sumptuous crystal chandeliers of the first floor.
I hurry past third-rate Theseus and his plaster legions, through the lofty lobby where chandeliers hang from ceilings infested with gilt cupids, around the praying gateman outside up the sidewalk to the belly-high cement wall that runs along the steep bank of the Nile.
Like a chandelier that is too big for the room in which it hangs, so the official buildings on the Ringstrasse, built at a time of overbearing Imperial optimism, were somehow too grand, too opulent for the geographical realities of the new Austria.
The antiques on display were impressive to be sure, virtually acres of beautiful mahogany furniture, jade and ivory, huge crystal chandeliers, miles of Herend and Zsolnay porcelain, art deco everything, including some quite stunning jewelry.
The ceiling had chandeliers and allegorical frescoes, and the floor had parquetry and Ilarnan millefleur carpets.
The house was a graceful neoclassic beauty misplaced among New England maples and hemlocks, and he envisioned, as he had so often in the past, a home more destined for music and laughter: lovely balls with candlelit chandeliers and swirling couples, charming girls in flowing skirts, dashing young gentlemen.
The tent itself seemed sleepily to breathe, like a living creature, for the little random breezes that wafted through it made the canvas whisper, and the ropes and chandelier and bail ring rustled and creaked and clinked.