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- noun A
holder forcandles ; a branchedcandlestick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He stepped into the quiet darkness, flipped on the entry light, a small Tiffany lamp with a candlestand base.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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He stepped into the quiet darkness, flipped on the entry light, a small Tiffany lamp with a candlestand base.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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There was a picture of Jesus propped on the candlestand.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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There was a picture of Jesus propped on the candlestand.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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There was a picture of Jesus propped on the candlestand.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The room is still as he left it, with its cot and candlestand, and pegs on the wall for hanging his pared-down wardrobe.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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Jilian placed herself with the candlestand to her left, sighted on it, raised the sword and swung ... and gasped, then clung for dear life as the sword seemed to take charge.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Jilian placed herself with the candlestand to her left, sighted on it, raised the sword and swung ... and gasped, then clung for dear life as the sword seemed to take charge.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Jilian placed herself with the candlestand to her left, sighted on it, raised the sword and swung ... and gasped, then clung for dear life as the sword seemed to take charge.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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"It's getting hot now, folks," shouted Foxy Fred, and an oak icebox, an eighteenth-century candlestand, and a Queen Anne table went under the hammer in rapid succession.
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare Braun, Lilian Jackson 1988
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