Girandole vs Candleholder - What's the difference?
girandole | candleholder | Hyponyms |
An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
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(pyrotechnics) A type of firework which creates a "whirling top" or "flying saucer" effect.
A device for holding one or more lit candles
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 5, author=, title=Brooklyn: Man Killed in Fall, work=New York Times
, passage=When officers arrived, the man, whose name was not released, confronted them with a metal candleholder , officials said. }}
Girandole is a hyponym of candleholder.
As nouns the difference between girandole and candleholder
is that girandole is an ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind while candleholder is a device for holding one or more lit candles.girandole
English
(wikipedia girandole)Noun
(en noun)- As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him...
Anagrams
* ----candleholder
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