Meaning of electrolier | Babel Free

Definitions

A fixture, usually hanging from a ceiling, for holding electric lamps; specifically, a chandelier lit by electricity rather than with candles or gas.

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“Every lamp in the drawing room is shaded, and no one can complain⟳ of too much light⟳. Not so, however in the boudoir, where the electric lamps are displayed in all their brilliancy, lighting up the rose du barri walls with a splendour enough to captivate a Frenchwoman. The silvered walls brackets, fender, and electrolier, by Messrs. Verity, are dazzling; […]”

“Artificial illumination is furnished by incandescent electric lamps pendant from a large corona and from side electroliers.”

“The electric fixtures are the best of their kind that have⟳ ever been placed in a public building. […] [E]ach of the thirty-one light⟳ electroliers in the Senate and House weighs nearly 900 pounds, and the cost⟳ of each was $1,176.00, while the 13 light⟳ electroliers in the Supreme Court and Governor's reception room weigh⟳ over 400 pounds each, and cost⟳, the first nearly $600.00, and the latter nearly $400.00.”

“Also, the Hillbridge house was of an even more gorgeous fancifulness than he had remembered, in its tapestry and velours rockers with carved arms, and the storm of light⟳ from the bracket lamps and from the electrolier of crimson, pearl and orange mosaic glass.”

“Garofalo, the second fiddle, is black, beady-eyed and pot-bellied. The convex reflections of the electroliers slide⟳ back and forth over his polished bald head, as he bends, again, again, in little military salutes.”

“At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch⟳. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light⟳. And behold, I was not in a cellar, but in a bedroom, a great rich garish bedroom, coloured blood red from top to bottom.”

“Early Electric! With what radiant hope⟳ / Men formed this many-branched electrolier, / Twisted the flex around the iron⟳ rope / And let⟳ the dazzling vacuum tubes hang⟳ clear, / And then with hearts the rich contrivance fill'd / Of copper, beaten by the Bromsgrove Guild.”

“There was a gigantic electrolier, ten feet high, with upward-curling gilt branches opening into cloudy glass lilies of light⟳.”

“Each of the eight glass-topped tables featured 'a tiny portable electrolier of a very chaste design⟳'.”

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