What is "sconces"

Usage examples of "sconces".

At the top of the stairs he flicked a switch and the upstairs hall sconces came on.

Fluted wall sconces cast funnels of light across walls of cream, trimmed in oak and offset by the deep burnt ocher of the carpeting.

The small wall sconces cast an uneven glow over the body, reflecting off of dark red trim and tinting everything in the corridor a smoky crimson.

A dozen antique stores, their windows crammed with tea tables, presidential campaign buttons, sconces, trivets, tinware, scraps of faded rugs, elegant Victorian tools.

As was customary now, the library was closed and the flames in the oil sconces had been trimmed to a dull glow.

The way was lined with gilded mirrors and golden sconces, each of them aglow with a separate candle.

It was early evening, and the flames danced merrily outward from the hearth, adding to the warmth created by the wall sconces and chandeliers that burned so brightly.

The walls were of stone, and the oil sconces were not the ones she was accustomed to.

Someone had already lit the oil sconces on the walls, and their light was gradually taking over the room.

The stone walls and ceiling, the absence of a door, and the oil sconces on the walls were all just the same as before.

But he gave up that idea immediately as stronger light approached the partly open doorway and then a hand pushed it open, sandaled feet below a black monastic robe carrying the light around the room to light several candles in wall sconces and on the chest to the right of the great bed.

Bunches of glowberries set in sconces lit the way with pale orange light.

Glowberry sconces cast a flickering greenish-yellow light, faint but sufficient.

The chandelier blazed and the wall sconces lit the sweeping staircase with its newly hung portrait of Horace Balfour.

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