Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bracket or girandole for candles or lamps.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wall-light.
Examples
-
A distant corner of the room became visible; outlines of the wall-beams; the growing glare of a wall-light in a tube over there.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
-
It was quite plain that any man of ordinary activity and size could have got out of the inner room into the corridor by the means which Samuel suggested -- through the hinged wall-light, near the ceiling.
The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
-
I found him lying in his bunk in his pajamas with a History of the Tunisian Wars balanced on his chest and a wall-light just back of his head, and he says: 'Why surely, Dick,' when I told him, but added: 'Though that old sieve of a _Bayport_, I doubt will you ever get her as far as Manila,' after which, carefully inserting a book-mark into the Tunisians, he glides into his uniform and comes ashore with me.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.