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)

  1. 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!

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