Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wick of a candle.
- noun A soft heavy cotton thread similar to that used to make wicks for candles.
- noun Embroidery made with knots of this thread.
- noun A fabric resembling chenille, made with closely-spaced tufts of cotton and used primarily for bedspreads and robes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
thread used to make thewicks ofcandles - noun A soft
cotton yarn that gives atufted pattern toembroidery
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern
- noun the wick of a candle
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Examples
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EA was saying that Candlewick is one of the few houses that puts lists of who-edited-what online Though for my own part, I could only find them by googling "editors name candlewick", not by a cursory glance at the website.
Some Editors Are More Anonymous Than Others Editorial Anonymous 2009
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Behind her, a teddy bear lies on the candlewick bedspread, while downstairs her flatmate is urging their weekly appointment with Dr Finlay's Casebook.
That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review 2011
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The ambiguous Iris Murdoch fights back against Kar's female stereotyping, and succeeds in looking intense, lonely, beautiful and desperate, even though she is leaning on a cosy candlewick bedspread staring at a heap of manuscripts.
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If you'd put David Miliband at the other end of the window, clad only in a candlewick bedspread, it would have been even hotter.
Poor, shy, sweet Diana? Don't make me laugh | Barbara Ellen 2011
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When, during the Civil War, Gletkin had fallen into the enemy's hands, they had tied a lighted candlewick on to his shaven skull, to extract from him certain information.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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I dipped my pinkie into the pool of hot wax around the candlewick and placed a tiny drop on the corner of the card, refastening it to the page.
Excerpt: The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas 2008
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Might not someone else have given Mrs. Thayer a coil of poisoned candlewick with which to mold the fine beeswax candles?
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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An old iron bed was painted butter yellow and set at an angle in one corner, a traditional candlewick bedspread giving it a timeless appeal.
Priceless Nicole Richie 2010
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Eliza struck a match and held it to her candlewick, then looked up to where her pinafore was hanging on the back of the door.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Eliza struck a match and held it to her candlewick, then looked up to where her pinafore was hanging on the back of the door.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
qroqqa commented on the word candlewick
For a while we stood there in wordless confrontation, both of us with an expression of disbelief, myself beside my luggage and she in a pink dressing gown that was made of a material found only in the bedrooms of the English lower classes and is unaccountably called candlewick.
—W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants
October 23, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word candlewick
I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
—Mr Mog Edwards in Under Milk Wood
March 25, 2009