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‖ girandola|dʒɪˈrændələ|
Also 7 gyrondola, 8 girondola.
[a. It. girandola girandole, f. girare to turn in a circle, a. L. gȳrare, f. gȳrus, a. Gr. γῦρος circle.]
1. A kind of revolving firework; a discharge of rockets, etc. from a revolving wheel.
1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. 250 The Girandola and fire works upon S. Peter's Eve. 1684Evelyn Diary 15 Nov., Being the Queene's birth-day, there were fire-works on the Thames before White-hall, with pageants of castles, forts, and other devices of gyrondolas, serpents..all represented in fire. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain ii. 670 Rockets were let off, starring again this Campus Stellæ with a St. Peter's Girandola on a small scale. 1887Dowden Shelley II. vi. 259 They witnessed..the fireworks at the Castle of St. Angelo, which exhibited, in addition to the customary girandola, the Mausoleum of Hadrian in a fiery restoration.
2. A revolving jet of water, or a series of jets in an ornamental fountain.
1644Evelyn Diary 1 Apr., A dolphin that casts a girandola of water neere 30 foote high. 1645Ibid. 6 May, In the midst of these stands a Janus quadrifons, yt cast forth 4 girandolas. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 366 The Girandola and other water works. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 438 The girondola, or dragon fountain, throws up a vast column of water to the height of twenty palmi. |