tricerion

plural triceria · plural uncommon tricerions · alternative trikerion · alternative trikirion

1. ChristianityA candlestick with three lights, signifying the Trinity.

   Tricerions are also the only type of candles that are able to pull off up-tempo musical numbers in Disney films: […]

   2018 August 9, Chloe Booker, “Melbourne Express, Thursday, August 9, 2018”, in The Age, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2025, Yesterday's word

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   Answers from page 22 […] TRICERION (c) A three-branched candlestick used in the Greek Orthodox Church, from the Greek keros wax: “The little acolyte appeared again from the side chapel, grinning lasciviously at the congregation, and carrying two large tricerions, dripping wax.”

   1990 December 29, “Word-watching”, in The Times, overseas edition, number 63,901, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 10

   Further more, the same religious dogmas show that three bishops or three hierarchs and two deacons carrying tricerions with torches are present at the Saint’s consecration.

   2012, Maria-Venera Rădulescu, “A possible portrait of Ungro-Wallachia’s first metropolitan. Iachint of Vicina (1359–372)”, in Caiete ARA, number 3, The Scene: "Saint Nicholas is consecrated Bishop" in the fresco of the Princely Church of Curtea de Argeș, page 99