bobèche

[ boh-besh ]

noun

1. a slightly cupped ring placed over the socket of a candleholder to catch the drippings of a candle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bobèche¹

1895–1900; < French, of uncertain origin; bob- perhaps akin to the base of bobine bobbin

Example Sentences

Chaney’s wife, Jennifer Chaney, is across the cavernous room, painting a gold bobeche, a piece that sits on the base of chandelier candles.

From Washington Post

They bear names like Bobèche and Toastface Grillah, and devote page after page to elaborate cocktails.

From New York Times

He made a great noise in his day, but nothing keeps his memory green except the Bobèche of Offenbach's Barbe-Bleue.

From Project Gutenberg

Tabarin was the first of the series of clowns that enlivened the streets of Paris for two hundred years, or, at any rate, the first to attain celebrity: Bobèche in our own century was the last.

From Project Gutenberg

We may mention, to complete the inventory, a hammock suspended from two nails inserted in the wall, a three-legged garden chair, a candlestick adorned with its bobeche, and some other similar objects of elegant art.

From Project Gutenberg