Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bracket, pendant, or stand, often with branches, and ornamented, used for supporting incandescent electric lamps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fixture , usually pendent from the ceiling, for holding electriclamps .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A stack of newspapers had accumulated on the centre table under the "electrolier", and half a dozen paper novels lay on the mantelpiece among cigar-cases and toilet bottles; but these traces of his passage had made no mark on the featureless dulness of the room, its look of being the makeshift setting of innumerable transient collocations.
The Reef; a novel 1912
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A stack of newspapers had accumulated on the centre table under the "electrolier", and half a dozen paper novels lay on the mantelpiece among cigar-cases and toilet bottles; but these traces of his passage had made no mark on the featureless dulness of the room, its look of being the makeshift setting of innumerable transient collocations.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1899
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Two are outstanding: A five-light electrolier of 1904, with pendant lanterns suspended from a helmet-like framework of hammered iron bands, would be at home in Wagner's Valhalla.
Four-Square Reformer Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010
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A valuable ruby on his little finger winked malevolently in the clear flood of light from the electrolier.
"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010
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A valuable ruby on his little finger winked malevolently in the clear flood of light from the electrolier.
Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light.
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His eyes turned rather eagerly towards the end of the room where the girl was standing alone, straight and slim, the light from an electrolier gilding the thick bright curls framing her beautiful, haughty little face.
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It was a warm night and under the glow of the electrolier Rosemary's magnificent hair curled and shone like polished bronze.
Rosemary Josephine Lawrence
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Hat, gun and rod racks of feet, antlers and heads in various combinations are mentioned elsewhere and occasionally some one attempts an electrolier of antlers, mounted either on the heads or separately.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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There was a fire ready laid in the grate; on the ceiling was a three-branch electrolier, but the switch by the door had been removed for some reason or other.
qms commented on the word electrolier
A new term was tried to anoint
A fixture with bulbs at each point.
They tried electrolier
Instead of chandelier
But now it's the update that's quaint.
May 2, 2016