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单词 rat's tail candle
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rat's tail candle
c. In full rat's tail candle. A thin tallow candle, or the end of this. Obsolete.
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rat's tail1834
1834 W. Beckford Italy (ed. 2) I. 213 [In Florence] the theatre..was all glitter and glare. No taste, no arrangement, paltry looking-glasses, and rat's-tail candles.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. i. 3 The end of his candle of tallow, or ‘rat's tail’, as we called it.
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