sconce1
noun skɒnsskɑns
1A candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket.
a wall sconce- From $3 water glasses to $1,200 ice buckets and designer sconces set into the walls, the folks like the stuff so much that they just had to take it home with them.
- There was a small bookshelf against one wall and some lovely wall sconces.
- Only if you're installing wall sconces, or recessed overhead lights, will you need to do electrical work in a room to change the lighting.
- Sound is presented in a simple Dolby Digital 2.0 mix and will not rattle sconces from your walls or make the neighbors head for the hills.
- She deftly detached a lantern off a nearby sconce on the wall.
- This show lounge has such Art Deco-style touches as stylized, elongated female figures on the curtain, typical wall sconces, and skyscrapers in a sunburst pattern on the ceiling.
- Thread the fabric through the wreath and let it fall lightly across each lighting sconce.
- No corner of the room had been neglected - even the wooden torches burning in the wall sconces had been carved with intricate flowers and leaves.
- The Revivalist home styles of the 1920s brought a craze for wall sconces - another gaslight derivative - but the fashion had largely died out by the end of that decade.
- Pillar candles in wall sconces faintly illuminate the small dining room, which is dark by day and night.
- Or wall sconces, but that would, again, involve hiring an electrician to install them.
- She held her sword firmly in her hand, the elven blade gleaming in the firelight the radiated off of the torches that were in the sconces along the wall.
- They resemble cone-like wall sconces, and the colorful abstract shapes covering their surfaces appear to glow like stained glass windows.
- Oil lamps burned in sconces along the walls, lighting the companions' way.
- The bronze sconces that lined the walls gleamed, furnished with fresh candles, and the side-tables beneath them smelled pleasingly of beeswax.
- Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher.
- In the wide corridor, the candles guttered in the sconces on the wall.
- The door was in a darker part of the corridor that led down to their rooms on the upper floor and Edmund took a candle from one of the wall sconces, lighting it and holding it steady by the ornate lock plate.
- Fakes are currently thought to be made in Spain and Italy, and include copies of wall sconces, alms dishes, ladles, candle moulds and other popular and valuable forms.
- The sconces on the walls varied - they were both on display and currently in use.
- 1.1 A flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce.the sconces burning in the passage provided some light
- I found myself in a long, empty hallway lit by a warm orangey glow from the sconces along the walls.
- When they reached the spot beyond the visible candlelight from the entry, wall sconces lit as they reached them.
- Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination.
- I had decided to take no candle and, instead, rely on memory and the dimly lit wall sconces to make my way to the front door.
- Also, the carefully placed wall sconces shed enough light - in two directions, no less - to break up the darkness of the wall color.
- It was dark, save for the sconces that lined the walls, but many of those had burned out, giving even further evidence that the wee hours of the morning were nigh.
- The two of them found themselves in a cavernous hall, dimly lit by wall sconces that emitted a flickering orange glow.
- From the flickering, uncertain light of the wall sconce, she could only see that he was tall and dark-haired, dressed in dusty but well-made traveling clothes.
- My house on Whidbey Island, Washington, is almost exclusively lighted by wall sconces.
Origin
Late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame): shortening of Old French esconse 'lantern', or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna) 'dark (lantern)' (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light), from abscondere 'to hide'.
Rhymes
bonce, ensconce, nonce, ponce, response
sconce2
noun skɒnsskɑns
archaic 1A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.
- 1.1 A shelter or screen from fire or the weather.
- 1.1 A shelter or screen from fire or the weather.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Dutch schans 'brushwood', from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense 'screen, interior partition' derives perhaps from sconce1; the later senses date from the late 16th century.
sconce1
nounskɑnsskäns
1A candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket.
a wall sconce- She held her sword firmly in her hand, the elven blade gleaming in the firelight the radiated off of the torches that were in the sconces along the wall.
- Fakes are currently thought to be made in Spain and Italy, and include copies of wall sconces, alms dishes, ladles, candle moulds and other popular and valuable forms.
- There was a small bookshelf against one wall and some lovely wall sconces.
- The bronze sconces that lined the walls gleamed, furnished with fresh candles, and the side-tables beneath them smelled pleasingly of beeswax.
- The Revivalist home styles of the 1920s brought a craze for wall sconces - another gaslight derivative - but the fashion had largely died out by the end of that decade.
- Thread the fabric through the wreath and let it fall lightly across each lighting sconce.
- No corner of the room had been neglected - even the wooden torches burning in the wall sconces had been carved with intricate flowers and leaves.
- In the wide corridor, the candles guttered in the sconces on the wall.
- Or wall sconces, but that would, again, involve hiring an electrician to install them.
- She deftly detached a lantern off a nearby sconce on the wall.
- From $3 water glasses to $1,200 ice buckets and designer sconces set into the walls, the folks like the stuff so much that they just had to take it home with them.
- The sconces on the walls varied - they were both on display and currently in use.
- Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher.
- Pillar candles in wall sconces faintly illuminate the small dining room, which is dark by day and night.
- Only if you're installing wall sconces, or recessed overhead lights, will you need to do electrical work in a room to change the lighting.
- The door was in a darker part of the corridor that led down to their rooms on the upper floor and Edmund took a candle from one of the wall sconces, lighting it and holding it steady by the ornate lock plate.
- Sound is presented in a simple Dolby Digital 2.0 mix and will not rattle sconces from your walls or make the neighbors head for the hills.
- This show lounge has such Art Deco-style touches as stylized, elongated female figures on the curtain, typical wall sconces, and skyscrapers in a sunburst pattern on the ceiling.
- They resemble cone-like wall sconces, and the colorful abstract shapes covering their surfaces appear to glow like stained glass windows.
- Oil lamps burned in sconces along the walls, lighting the companions' way.
- 1.1 A flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce.the sconces burning in the passage provided some light
- From the flickering, uncertain light of the wall sconce, she could only see that he was tall and dark-haired, dressed in dusty but well-made traveling clothes.
- Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination.
- When they reached the spot beyond the visible candlelight from the entry, wall sconces lit as they reached them.
- I had decided to take no candle and, instead, rely on memory and the dimly lit wall sconces to make my way to the front door.
- I found myself in a long, empty hallway lit by a warm orangey glow from the sconces along the walls.
- Also, the carefully placed wall sconces shed enough light - in two directions, no less - to break up the darkness of the wall color.
- The two of them found themselves in a cavernous hall, dimly lit by wall sconces that emitted a flickering orange glow.
- It was dark, save for the sconces that lined the walls, but many of those had burned out, giving even further evidence that the wee hours of the morning were nigh.
- My house on Whidbey Island, Washington, is almost exclusively lighted by wall sconces.
Origin
Late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame): shortening of Old French esconse ‘lantern’, or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna) ‘dark (lantern)’ (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light), from abscondere ‘to hide’.
sconce2
nounskɑnsskäns
archaic 1A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.
- 1.1 A shelter or screen serving as protection from fire or the weather.
- 1.1 A shelter or screen serving as protection from fire or the weather.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Dutch schans ‘brushwood’, from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense ‘screen, interior partition’ derives perhaps from sconce; the later senses date from the late 16th century.