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- noun Plural form of
cresset .
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Examples
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The left-hand passage revealed a long corridor that seemed to continue endlessly, lit by oil lamps in cressets every dozen or so feet.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009
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The candles glowed golden in their cressets, warming the waiting rows of green baize cushions.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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The candles glowed golden in their cressets, warming the waiting rows of green baize cushions.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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So he took the two dinars and embarked them in the boat; and he put off and rowed about with them awhile, when behold, the barge came down the river in mid-stream, with lighted flambeaux and cressets flaming therein.
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His hands were like many pronged pitch forks, his legs like the masts of great ships, and his eyes like cressets of gleaming fire.
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The Baron was seated alone in his hall, illuminated with cressets and torches.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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He called loudly to bring cressets, torches, and candles; and a few remaining inhabitants began to make their unwilling appearance, with such various means of giving light as they chanced to possess.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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And behold, there appeared cressets and lanthorns and flambeaux and up came the army of women.
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He ordered all his ships to hoist lanterns in the night and instructed them to keep beacon-fires burning in iron cressets above their high stern rails.8
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He ordered all his ships to hoist lanterns in the night and instructed them to keep beacon-fires burning in iron cressets above their high stern rails.8
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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