单词 | rat's tail candle |
释义 | > as lemmasrat's tail candle ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > of other shapes serpent1802 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. < as lemmas |
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