英语词汇“sconce”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sconce1

/skɒns

noun

1A candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket: a wall sconce...

Pillar candles in wall sconces faintly illuminate the small dining room, which is dark by day and night.
In the wide corridor, the candles guttered in the sconces on the wall.
Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher.

1.1A flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce: the sconces burning in the passage provided some light...

My house on Whidbey Island, Washington, is almost exclusively lighted by wall sconces.
When they reached the spot beyond the visible candlelight from the entry, wall sconces lit as they reached them.
It was dark, save for the sconces that lined the walls, but many of those had burned out, giving even further evidence that the wee hours of the morning were nigh.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame): shortening of Old French esconse 'lantern', or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna) 'dark (lantern)' (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light), from abscondere 'to hide'.

Rhymes

sconce2

/skɒns

noun archaic

1A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.

1.1A shelter or screen from fire or the weather.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Dutch schans 'brushwood', from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense 'screen, interior partition' derives perhaps from sconce¹; the later senses date from the late 16th century.

单词	sconce
释义	sconce1 /skɒns / noun 1A candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket: a wall sconce... Pillar candles in wall sconces faintly illuminate the small dining room, which is dark by day and night. In the wide corridor, the candles guttered in the sconces on the wall. Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher. 1.1A flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce: the sconces burning in the passage provided some light... My house on Whidbey Island, Washington, is almost exclusively lighted by wall sconces. When they reached the spot beyond the visible candlelight from the entry, wall sconces lit as they reached them. It was dark, save for the sconces that lined the walls, but many of those had burned out, giving even further evidence that the wee hours of the morning were nigh. Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame): shortening of Old French esconse 'lantern', or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna) 'dark (lantern)' (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light), from abscondere 'to hide'. Rhymes bonce, ensconce, nonce, ponce, response sconce2 /skɒns / noun archaic 1A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate. 1.1A shelter or screen from fire or the weather. Origin Late Middle English: from Dutch schans 'brushwood', from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense 'screen, interior partition' derives perhaps from sconce¹; the later senses date from the late 16th century.
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