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单词 wax-chandler
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wax-chandlern.

Brit. /ˈwaksˌtʃɑːndlə/, /ˈwaksˌtʃandlə/, U.S. /ˈwæksˌtʃæn(d)lər/
Etymology: See chandler n.1 2.
One whose trade is to make or sell wax candles.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of candles
chandler1389
tallow-chandler1406
wax-chandler1418
tallower1882
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > one who makes or sells
chandler1389
wax-maker14..
tallow-chandler1406
wax-chandler1418
candle-maker1611
candle-wright1766
maggot-boiler1788
1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 34 Iohn Baldok,..Waxchaundeler of London.
1466 Paston Lett. II. 270 To John Orford, wax chandeler, for xii. torches and one candell of i. lb., lvs. iid. ob.
1503 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 103 To John Hynsted of London wexchaundeler for iij rolles of white wex..and for iij rolles yelowe wex.
1543 tr. Act 11 Hen. VI c. 12 The waxchaundelers in dyuers parties of England.
1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 625 The Company of Wax-Chandlers, having beene a Brotherhood of very ancient standing,..became yet to be incorporated in Anno, 1484.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4287/4 William Rack, late of St. Saviour's.., Waxchandler.
1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata I. viii. 197 The old wax-chandler was a widower of many years' standing.
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