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
He lit the large Hanukkah candelabrum, dubbed the "National Menorah," erected in the park with private funds and delivered brief remarks.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020
The leaves flared and faded quickly, leaving nothing but a thousand embers, making the tree look like an immense extinguished candelabrum.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“The world rotates around us, as far as we’re concerned. That’s why we anthropomorphize animals. The candelabra in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ — why does it have a face?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
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
Seconds ago, that candle had been quietly flickering in its gilded candelabra; now only the tiny flames flickering on the ground remained.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
