candle light

candle light (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of candlelight.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 384:

     He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares, / That in his youth had beene of mickle might, / And borne great ſway in armes amongſt his peares: / But now weake age had dimd his candle light.

   • 1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent‎, volume II, page 288:

     8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships,

   • 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night

     O, how I long to be agen

     That poor and independent man,

     With labour's lot from morn to night

     And books to read at candle light;