wax light

noun

1. a candle made of wax.

wax light

noun

1. a candle or taper of wax

Word History and Origins

Origin of wax light¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

A table was magnificently laid for fifty or more, and the place was brilliantly illuminated by means of lustres with hundreds of wax lights.

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Our eyes alone showed life as they reflected the bright wax lights in the candlesticks.

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The plan was this:— Some small squat wax lights, used by nurses to “watch baby,” were procured.

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The wax lights on the dressing-table, and the unsnuffed dip with which the old housekeeper lit us through endless passages, leave all the corners dark.

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Happily, reason comes to the rescue, and the priest and the cathedral, p. 5and the Mass and the music, the incense and wax lights, disappear.

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