padella

plural padellas

1. An Italian-style skillet, or small frying pan.
2. oftenA large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, formerly used for public illumination.

   padella lights on the parapets of the North Bridge

   1884, A Short Account of the Tercentenary Festival of the University of Edinburgh

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   Two porticos shut off the centre, and between the two porticos was a winter garden, magnificently illuminated by concealed padellas.

   1910 (translated), Memoirs of Countess Golovina

   The padella lamps , which were coloured red , white , and blue , were hung upon the trees and bushes at the sides of the walks , and were also placed in groups along the edge of the lake

   1875, Newcastle Council Reports