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candelabrum

[kan-dl-ah-bruhm, -ab-ruhm] / ˌkæn dlˈɑ brəm, -ˈæb rəm /
NOUN
candlestick
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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

A candelabrum was lit at the writing desk by the window where her stepmother sat.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

During the blackout of 1965, he walked from his apartment to a nearby steakhouse carrying a candelabra he had pinched from the Plaza Hotel, tapers ablaze, and ordered a steak, medium-rare.

From Seattle Times Jul. 2, 2023

The candles were small trees that had been pruned and tied to wires to make them grow in the shape of candelabra.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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




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