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Definition of Bobeche
1. Noun. A cup or ring at the top of a candlestick, used to catch melted wax running down the side of the candle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bobeche
1. a glass collar on a candle holder [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobeche
Literary usage of Bobeche
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890 by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1893)
"During the morning, however, bobeche went to a drinking saloon, and while there
the man he left in charge received orders to send the priests to work on a ..."
2. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1903)
"I left the Russian see-saw, and went to see bobeche. ... I had to remain standing,
and as I threaded my way between the elect if I could not see bobeche at ..."
3. The Desultory Man by George Payne Rainsford James (1836)
"bobeche. And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a
voyage, he hath strange places crammed With observations, the which he vents In ..."
4. De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of the Extensive and Very Valuable Artistic ...by Luigi Orselli, Horace Townsend, American Art Association by Luigi Orselli, Horace Townsend, American Art Association (1921)
"... saucer-shaped gadrooned bobeche. Tripod stand, with voluted consoles at sides
and with cherubim and oval scrolled escutcheons between. ..."
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