Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gaselier.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

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  • noun A gas-powered chandelier.

Etymologies

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Blend of gas and chandelier

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Examples

  • It was a fitting room for revelry, with its gaily painted walls and ceiling, now with its ropes of natural blossoms festooning windows and chaining gasalier to gasalier.

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • You sit under a handsome gasalier or electrolier and you read your evening paper, and you forget the toil that produced the paper or the industry that led to that pleasant light which you so much enjoy.

    Our National Equipment 1912

  • I stopped under the gasalier and glanced again through the letter I had just received.

    To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

  • The wall paper and carpets are mostly green, coeval with the gasalier and the Venetian blinds.

    The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The windows have green Venetian blinds and rep curtains; and there is a gasalier; but it is a convert to electric lighting.

    The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • In a mortuary silence, the colonel, seated beneath a gasalier adorned (the mockery of it!) with

    Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Sleep returned, and health, with cessation of all the morbid symptoms, the result of overwork and night work, for he used at Cheyne Walk to begin painting in the afternoon, and, lighting a huge gasalier on a standard near his easel, keep at his drawing far into the night, sleeping late the next day.

    The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

  • For the same reason, when in use, the crystal should be overshadowed by the seer, and so placed that _no direct rays_ of light from sun, or lamp, or gasalier may fall upon it.

    How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • They stretched from corner to corner of the smoke-grimed ceiling, they fell in clumsy festoons from the cheap gasalier, they framed the fly-blown mirror and the tawdry pictures; and I know tired hands and eyes worked many hours to fashion and fix those foolish chains, saying,

    Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • For economy of space as well as of temper (for lamps of all kinds are sore trials), I had a gasalier of three lights over the table.

    The Enemies of Books 1888

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