girandole
See also: girándole
English
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editEtymology
editFrom French girandole, from Italian girandola, from girare (“to turn, gyrate”).
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editNoun
editgirandole (plural girandoles)
- An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him...
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 35:
- It was a scene of gaiety, glitter, and show; of richly–dressed people, handsome mirrors, chalked floors, girandoles and wax–candles; and in all parts of the scene, gliding from spot to spot in silent softness, bowing obsequiously to this party, nodding familiarly to that, and smiling complacently on all, was the sprucely–attired person of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, the Master of the Ceremonies.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework which creates a "whirling top" or "flying saucer" effect.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian girandola.
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Noun
editgirandole f (plural girandoles)
Further reading
edit- “girandole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editgirandole f
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