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wax-candle en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wax-candul, waxe candel, wax candill, from Old English weaxcandel, equivalent to wax + candle.

Meanings

1. A candle made of wax.
   • 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." 2013, Guy de Maupassant, The Entire Original Maupassant Short:
   • 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, […] 2014, George Eliot, Felix Holt:
   • 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, […] 1796, The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures:
   • No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes! 2015, Five Golden Books of Child:

Forms

Synonyms

bougie

Translations (2)

pl świeca woskowa (a candle made of wax) · hu viaszgyertya (a candle made of wax)