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candlelight|ˈkænd(ə)llaɪt|
Forms: 4 candeliȝt; see also candle and light.
[OE. candel leoht, f. candel candle n. + leoht light.]
1. The light given by a candle or by candles. Often, artificial light in general.
a1000C.R. Benet 53 (Bosw.) Candel-leoht. 1205Lay. 23752 Þer wes al longe niht songes and candel-liht. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2544 Þay schyne þer in tal þat house so doþ þe candeliȝt. c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 123 As cler as candyllyȝth. 1678Trial Coleman 30, I cannot see a great way by Candle-light. 1710Addison Tatler No. 240 ⁋5 One who had studied Thirty Years by Candle-light. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xix. 59 A very fine effect by candle-light. 1875Helps Soc. Press. ix. 133 Well, don't you think that most men fall in love by candle-light?
b. ‘The necessary candles for use’ (J.).
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §149 Whether the warkes that thou..& thy seruauntes shall do be more auauntage to the than the fyre & candell-lyghte, meat & drynk yt they shall spende. a1704Molineux Let. to Locke (J.), I shall find him coals and candlelight.
c. A picture representing a scene by candlelight.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 24 He frequently painted candle-lights.
†d. fig. ‘Light’ of life. Cf. candle 3 b. Obs.
1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. iii, A man of full ripe yeares..weake age had dimd his candlelight.
2. The time during, or at, which candles are lighted; dusk, nightfall.
1663Pepys Diary 29 Aug., She and I, it being candlelight, bought meat for to-morrow. 1699Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 481 Yesterday the lords satt till after candlelight debating his majesties speech. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 26 The Whole might be done..twice over before Candle-light. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. lix. 195 Soon after candle-light on the fourth..the firing was renewed.
3. attrib. Of or pertaining to candlelight.
1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 328 Unlawfull conventicles, candle-light congregations. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. viii. 80 Candle-light devotion. 1813Examiner 22 Feb. 124/1 The candle-light glow of Titian. 1797–1803Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 178 Pages of vulgar truisms and candle-light sense. 1832Marryat N. Forster xliv, A very pretty candle-light colour. |