Meaning of wax-candle | Babel Free

Definitions

A candle made of wax.

Examples

“To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]”

“The artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper."”

“There was a delicate scent of dried rose-leaves; the light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candle-stick, […]”

“No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!”

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