单词 | wax candle |
释义 | wax candlen. A candle made of wax. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > wax candle wax candlec725 ciergec1300 wax-light1600 cere-candle1632 bougiea1753 wax1844 c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) F 419 Funalia, cerei, waex~condel. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 202/28 Cereus, wexcandel. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxi. 1323 Þey þat serueþ in chirche of wexe candels ben ycleped ceroferarii. c1450 Mirk's Festial 295/2 Þan is þer anoþer cros of a wax-candul leyde on hys breste. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. v. sig. Q8 Sitting in a chaire,..& looking vpon a wax-candle which burnt before her. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden O 7 b Make readie the Siluer-candlestickes with the waxe candles. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. ii. xxxiii. 224 In the middle of the room..was one large wax-candle. 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xviii. 300 Blazing wax candles. 1892 F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War I. 22 Two great wax candles of 12 lbs. weight, to be burnt before the high altar of the church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c725 |
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