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  • noun Plural form of girandole.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect 2010

  • The salons, and especially the gallery, were beautifully decorated with a profusion of candles and girandoles.

    Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • The salons, and especially the gallery, were beautifully decorated with a profusion of candles and girandoles.

    La Comtesse du Nord elena maria vidal 2009

  • 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.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • 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.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • 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.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • From their ears giant girandoles hung like miniature chandeliers and their bosoms popped out in powdered white hillocks.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

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