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  • noun a person who makes or sells candles.

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  • noun someone who makes candles

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  • noun a person who makes or sells candles

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Examples

  • His mother "was always pregnant with cloth diapers hanging everywhere to dry," says Jerry Vanden Eynden, a childhood friend who manages Candle-Lite, a local candlemaker.

    Amid Upheaval, Boehner's Business Ties Cut Both Ways 2010

  • A candlemaker, Connie lives in Ethel, Louisiana, population 2,000, a fleck on the map of East Feliciana Parish, which itself contains only two traffic lights.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • A candlemaker, Connie lives in Ethel, Louisiana, population 2,000, a fleck on the map of East Feliciana Parish, which itself contains only two traffic lights.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • A candlemaker, Connie lives in Ethel, Louisiana, population 2,000, a fleck on the map of East Feliciana Parish, which itself contains only two traffic lights.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • A candlemaker, Connie lives in Ethel, Louisiana, population 2,000, a fleck on the map of East Feliciana Parish, which itself contains only two traffic lights.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • The stories they tell are often arresting: at St Andrews, among the imposing tombs of professors and merchants and golfers, one may find a stone set up by a candlemaker who, within six years, had lost, one by one, four small children and then his young wife.

    Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd | Editorial 2010

  • Don't be hatin', maybe Mr. Burns was a candlemaker.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 07 2008

  • Have ye taken the land from the farmer, and given it to the tailor out of work and the candlemaker masterless? —

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • (Pictured is a candlemaker from Teotitlan del Valle, demonstrating his craft in a Oaxaca gallery.)

    Mexico electronico 2000

  • (Pictured is a candlemaker from Teotitlan del Valle, demonstrating his craft in a Oaxaca gallery.)

    Mexico electronico 2000

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