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- noun Plural form of
candelabrum .
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Examples
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Architects who give measurements for ordinary doorways, do not contemplate such emergencies as testimonial candelabrums or irremoveable caps and plumes: and the door of the Glyndewi ballroom had no notion of accommodating a lancer in full dress who could not even be civil enough to take off his hat.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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The little cascades in the brook were ornamented with transparent shields, and long candelabrums and spermaceti-colored fools'-caps and plated jellies and white globes, with the black water whirling along transparently underneath.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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You can use green mini lights, gold mini lights or even strings of beads with mini lights to brighten the ceiling, candelabrums, bookcases, entertainment center, entrances, and tables.
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Corals rise up like candelabrums throughout the reef.
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