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Definition of Candlesticks
1. candlestick [n] - See also: candlestick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candlesticks
Literary usage of Candlesticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social New York Under the Georges, 1714-1776: Houses, Streets, and Country by Esther Singleton (1902)
"It consisted of two pairs of silver candlesticks, 81 \ ounces ; one silver snuffers
stand, ... Two of the above candlesticks appear on page 150. ..."
2. The New Testament by Canadian Bible Society (1889)
"20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the
seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven ..."
3. English Church Life from the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement by John Wickham Legg (1914)
"candlesticks began to be set again on the altar soon after the Restoration.
At Christchurch, the Metropolitical Church of the Province of Canterbury, ..."
4. The Lure of the Antique by Walter Alden Dyer (1910)
"CHAPTER VIII OLD LAMPS AND candlesticks THERE are very few collectors, I find,
who make a specialty of old lamps and candlesticks. ..."
5. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society, William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society (1900)
"But Xanten is rich in other candlesticks which afford a most happy and rare object
lesson of the way in which the natural and reasonable desire for many ..."
6. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine by Thomas Whittemore (1858)
"And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; 12. I turned. ... If Seven
golden candlesticks. —Here again the number seven is preserved. ..."
7. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Book of Revelation by Albert Barnes (1859)
"turned, I saw 12 And I turned to see the voice I candlesticks ... The word rendered
candlesticks— Xv^y/a—means properly a light-stand; lamp-stand;—something ..."
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