Meanings
plural wax-candles · alternative wax candle
- A candle made of wax.
No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!
2015, Five Golden Books of Child3 more examples
To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]
1796, The Repertory Of Arts And ManufacturesThe artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper."
2013, Guy de Maupassant, The Entire Original Maupassant ShortThere was a delicate scent of dried rose-leaves; the light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candle-stick, […]
2014, George Eliot, Felix HoltSynonyms: bougie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA candle made of wax.
Origin
- Old Englishweaxcandel
- Middle Englishwax-candul
- Englishwax-candle
From Middle English wax-candul, waxe candel, wax candill, from Old English weaxcandel, equivalent to wax + candle.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Hungarian viaszgyertya
- viaszgyertyaa candle made of wax
Polish świeca woskowa
- świeca woskowaa candle made of wax
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