chandelier

Noun

Meaning

A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

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Examples

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. Mikhail Bulgakov

But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. Tennessee Williams

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. Antal Szerb

I felt like a moth in a chandelier - all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly. Richard Bach

It's interesting, isn't it?... the chandelier... it reminds me of mushroom soup. Tennessee Williams

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down! Gaston Leroux

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