chandeliern.
/ʃandəˈlɪə/ 1. An ornamental branched support or frame to hold a number of lights (originally candles), usually hung from the roof or ceiling.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candelabrum
branch1525
principal1548
candle-branch1599
lustre1682
chandelier1736
pharos1806
candelabrum1815
cluster-candlestick1859
lampadary1885
1736 W. Stukeley Palæogr. Sacra 69 (T.) Lamps, branches, or chandeliers (as we now modishly call them).
1745 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 167 Two brass branches or chandeliers..for St. Geos. Church.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. xiii. 726 The new church... Is most magnificently illuminated by chandeliers.
1831 W. Scott Kenilworth (rev. ed.) xiv, in Waverley Novels XXIII. 204 From the oaken roof hung a superb chandelier.
2. Military. ‘A wooden frame, which was filled with fascines, to form a traverse in sapping’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.), and cover the sappers.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines
bavin1528
gabion1544
grand-maund1579
saucisse1604
sconce-korf1629
cannon-basket1630
sausage1645
chandelier1664
fascine1669
musket-basket1688
saucisson1702
fascinery1751
basket1753
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. c6 To blow up Ditches, Estacades, and Chandeliers.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4082/3 They brought a great number of Chandeliers to cover their Workmen.
1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. lix. 294 Gabions and fascines and chandeliers for the redoubts.
3. ? A branched support.
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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Anil A large kind of Buckets, tied to long Rods placed upon Chandeliers, by Means of which, the Negroes raise the Water, beat it, and stir it violently and continually.
Compounds
chandelier lily n. (also simply chandelier) a bulbous South African plant of the genus Brunsvigia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > allied flowers
summer fool1597
winter daffodil1615
Jacobaea lily1752
African tulip1759
Jacobean lily1770
haemanthus1771
alstroemeria1775
snowflake1777
chandelier lily1818
hippeastrum1821
clivia1828
Vallota1837
sprekelia1840
Murray lily1847
knight's star1855
Natal lily1855
Loddon lily1882
Peruvian lily1883
spider lily1887
1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 165 We noticed here a gigantic species of a plant, from its singular form..called the chandelier.
1871 Cape Monthly Mag. 3 122 A grand family of plants—the Amaryllidaceæ—of which our Chandelier lily (Brunsvigia Josephinæ) is an example.
chandelier plant n. a species of Euphorbia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun]
physic nut1657
milk-bush1696
milk-tree1698
poison-bush1740
jatropha1754
milky-hedge1773
milk hedge1780
chandelier plant1827
Jew bush1830
candelabrum1834
poinsettia1836
slipper-plant1848
coquillo1851
zebra poison1871
oil tree1879
picture-tree1885
slipper spurs1887
monkey fiddle1913
milk plant1965
stringwood-
1827 T. Philipps Scenes in Albany i. 4 We..crossed a tract of land covered with aloes, called likewise the chandelier plant.
chandelier tree n. Pandanus Candelabrum: from its mode of branching.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > screw-pines
pandan1770
pandanus1770
screw pine1789
lauhala1815
hala1822
chandelier tree1830
screw palm1833
tent-tree1884
pandanad1892
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 285 The Chandelier Tree of Guinea and St. Thomas's derives its name from this peculiar tendency to branching.
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