chandelier
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dlˈɪər noun
a decorative, sometimes ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling, usually having branched supports for a number of lights.
Related forms
chan·de·liered, adjective
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chandelier (ˌʃændɪˈlɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| an ornamental hanging light with branches and holders for several candles or bulbs | |
| [C17: from French: candleholder, from Latin | |
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Chandelier
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Word Origin & History
chandelier
early 14c., chaundeler, from O.Fr. chandelabre "candlestick," from L. candelabrum, from candela "candle" (see candle). Re-spelled c.1736 in French fashion; during 17c. the French spelling referred to a military device.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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chandelier
a branched candleholder-or, in modern times, electric-light holder-suspended from the ceiling. Hanging candleholders made of wood or iron and simply shaped were used in Anglo-Saxon churches before the Norman Conquest (1066). In the 12th and 13th centuries huge openwork hoops of iron or bronze supported numerous prickets (spikes) for candles.
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Example sentences
Yao, accompanied by a bodyguard about half his size, narrowly missed colliding with a chandelier hanging from the high ceiling.
Essentially, it is a tribute to the notion of a human chandelier.
He can take a piece of wire and a few cigarettes and turn them into a chandelier.
Maybe one of them will want to snuggle up under the chandelier here, or even take out the garbage.
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