wax-candle
English
Alternative forms
- wax candle
Etymology
From Middle English wax-candul, waxe candel, wax candill, from Old English weaxcandel, equivalent to wax + candle.
Noun
wax-candle (plural wax-candles)
- A candle made of wax
- 1796, The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures:
- To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]
- 2013, Guy de Maupassant, The Entire Original Maupassant Short:
- The artist said: "Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper."
- 2014, George Eliot, Felix Holt:
- There was a delicate scent of dried rose-leaves; the light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candle-stick, […]
- 2015, Five Golden Books of Child:
- No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!