candelabrum
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The candelabrum, known as a hanukkiah, has been in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, for the past three years.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
A monumental bronze candelabrum, weighing more than half a ton and meant for the tomb of the lavish cardinal Thomas Wolsey, was cast in London by an immigrant artist from Florence, Benedetto da Rovezzano.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
During Hanukkah, the “Festival of Lights,” Jews light the Menorah, a candelabrum of nine candles, and during the four weeks of Advent Christians light a Yule Log.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
Many Hanukkah observers display their menorahs in areas where the holy candelabrum can be viewed by inhabitants and guests.
From Fox News ● Nov. 28, 2021
A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
The candelabra, for instance, that the character is holding is identical to the one visible floating in an earlier hall scene, now implying the bride is broodingly wandering the Mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The president had invited France's Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia to light the first of eight candles on a Hanukkiah, or candelabra, marking the start of the Jewish festival of lights.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah - a multibranched candelabra.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Her taste at the Reserve is expressed in the Rhododendron Glen, the Ravine, the candelabra primulas, ginger, cyclamen, oxalis and other wildflowers on the property.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
“It’s like India,” Shoba said, watching him tend his makeshift candelabra.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The last two also take the English plurals, memorandums, candelabrums.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
The little cascades in the brook were ornamented with transparent shields, and long candelabrums and spermaceti-colored fools'-caps and plated jellies and white globes, with the black water whirling along transparently underneath.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
