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Definition of Candlesnuffer
1. Noun. An implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle.
Definition of Candlesnuffer
1. Noun. (alternative form of candle snuffer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Candlesnuffer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candlesnuffer
Literary usage of Candlesnuffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1826)
"It is disagreeable to be detecting at every turn the soul of a candlesnuffer
beneath the trappings even of a melo-dramatic hero. ..."
2. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"he seems not to have performed this season—the Editor of the BD says, " his
situation in the theatre was " at first very low, being that of a candlesnuffer— ..."
3. Essays, English and American by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1920)
"The first lion was a candlesnuffer,° who, being a fellow of a testy choleric
temper, overdid his part, and would not suffer himself to be killed so easily ..."
4. The Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1858)
"it comes to pass, that during all this time he had sent nobody, no, not so much
as a candlesnuffer, to take away the dead body of Sempronius. ..."
5. Adventure Guide Germany by Henk Bekker (2005)
"It has a high gable with turrets and candlesnuffer rooftops, blending well with
the design of the Rathaus. On the east side of the square is the Baroque ..."
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