Meanings
plural pencil-holders
- alternativeAlternative form of pencil holder.
Make fun and useful art including votive and taper-style candleholders, soap dishes, jewelry bowls, cereal and soup bowls, cups, mugs, pencil-holders and so much more.
2016 September 23, “Out and about”, in Missoulian, volume 141, number 267, Missoula, Mont.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E2, columns 3–42 more examples
After lunch, my mother was showered with a mound of Grade A kid junk: handmade greeting cards with hardened macaroni hearts glued to them, hand-thrown clay pots that looked like Salvador Dali’s melting clocks, a decoupage pencil-holder that was slightly dented.
2016 May 8, Mark Hinson, “Celebrating Mom: Here’s a list of a few last-minute gift ideas for Mother’s Day”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume 111, number 129, Tallahassee, Fla.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6D, column 3During a pandemic show outtake posted on YouTube, O’Brien referred to a bust of TR over his left shoulder, a Dwight D. Eisenhower pencil-holder, and a line drawing of Lincoln over his right shoulder: […]
2021 June 20, Verne Gay, “Bully! A TR: That’s right, Conan O’Brien is into Teddy Roosevelt, and yes, he’s leaving his current role, but he’ll be back”, in Newsday, volume 81, number 290, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages C6–C7
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