Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
girandole .
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Examples
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The house's interior design was somewhat rococo, being full of "astral lamps and girandoles and Hepplewhite suite chairs", and for a long while, his daughter couldn't understand it: this kind of stuff was not exactly de rigueur in Beech Creek.
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The salons, and especially the gallery, were beautifully decorated with a profusion of candles and girandoles.
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The salons, and especially the gallery, were beautifully decorated with a profusion of candles and girandoles.
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The aigrette that quivered on the hair tower of a duchess kept company with the girandoles of a countess whose head fell in a basket and diamond shoe buckles that sauntered Versailles.
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From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.
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From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.
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The aigrette that quivered on the hair tower of a duchess kept company with the girandoles of a countess whose head fell in a basket and diamond shoe buckles that sauntered Versailles.
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The aigrette that quivered on the hair tower of a duchess kept company with the girandoles of a countess whose head fell in a basket and diamond shoe buckles that sauntered Versailles.
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From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.
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Trying to croon to herself as she passed, and stopping only to hang one of the scarlet girandoles in Vivia's braids, she went in.
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