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
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
Bush displayed a menorah there, a candelabrum given to him by the Synagogue Council of America.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020
The tank twirled right through an elaborate candelabrum and burst into flames like some deadly firework.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
"I hope the light of this candelabra will shine across this square long beyond the eight days of the Hanukkah celebration," Mr Scholz said.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 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
At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
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
