What is "candelabrum"

Usage examples of "candelabrum".

While Tamara went into the forest to gather wildflowers for the blue vase that stood in the meditation room, he set out the candelabra and burned incense, the marvellously pungent buddhi sticks that cleansed the air of positive ions, dirt, noxious chemicals, or any sort of gaseous pollution.

All around him, eager hands reached out to retrieve paintings and cachepots and candelabra and even small pieces of furniture.

Back inside, she examined the intricate tapestries that lined the pink scrubbed walls and admired the heavy cherrywood table adorned with golden candelabra.

Gomez removed a lit candle from the candelabrum and placed it in the sconce on the wall above the daybed, then he bowed and withdrew.

Christmas, the President of the United States found himself at a Blue Room photo op standing before the African candelabra called a kinara, lighting the red candle that the First Lady whispered in his ear stood for the basic principle of kuji-chagulia.

The girl was enjoying every bit of it: the Arab-style house with its open courtyards, the European knickknackery, Moreau in his bare henna-stained feet and gandourah, Madame in her medieval getup, the two old birds cracking their bones as they lowered themselves into their chairs, the massive Georgian silver candelabra assisted by a naked electric light bulb on a fraying wire overhead, and the Greek-Italian beauty picking his nose delicately behind the cover of his napkin.

He summoned a tiny linkboy with a candelabra who led them toward the side stairs as Margaret went on.

Drawing their palms over grass, goldenrod, and white alyssum, they walked toward the common line, fourteen of them, their yellow silk cassocks whipped by wind and fiery convections, the five snakes about each of their throats outstretched, like the spokes of a candelabra, searching every direction.

Radiating her sensual charm all the while, Poppaea seemed even more beautiful than during her visit to the Palatine, probably because her honeyed strands of hair were not tied back but cascaded over the edge of the couch, glistening in the soft amber glow from the solitary candelabra on the table.

She had arranged the flowers herself, a low bowl of bronze chrysanthemums and yellow roses, and flanked it by silver candelabra, their lighted candles casting a soft glow over the table.

As she looked at the elegant stonework, the fine tapestries, the silver goblets and candelabra on the tables, Jill felt profoundly embarrassed.

It was a wonderful atmosphere, the only illumination coming from the nickering candelabra and the log fire.

With candles burning in wrought-iron sconces and freestanding candelabra, the atmosphere was positively fantastic.

Impulsively, Caroline yanked the beeswax candles out of the candelabra and replaced them with the tallow ones in her bag.

So if he bought a new candelabra, one could be assured that it would be on display in the dining room.