Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually crystal collar on a candle socket used to catch drippings or to hold suspended pendants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glass disk or shallow cup with a central perforation, made to surround the base of a candle or of a gas-light. In the latter case the glass is ground to diffuse the light.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French bobèche.]
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Examples
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We may mention, to complete the inventory, a hammock suspended from two nails inserted in the wall, a three-legged garden chair, a candlestick adorned with its _bobeche_, and some other similar objects of elegant art.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841
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You can add a bobeche, this is a disk made out of glass, plastic or ceramic with a hole in the center and sometimes crystal dangles.
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You can add a bobeche, this is a disk made out of glass, plastic or ceramic with a hole in the center and sometimes crystal dangles.
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