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candle light en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of candlelight.
    • He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares, / That in his youth had beene of mickle might, / And borne great ſway in armes amongſt his peares: / But now weake age had dimd his candle light. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 384:
    • 8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships, 1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume II, page 288:
    • 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night O, how I long to be agen That poor and independent man, With labour's lot from morn to night And books to read at candle light;