Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A taper made to burn slowly, for use as a night-light.
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Examples
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Yet was he but a foil to set it off, his night-taper dwindling before the Dayspring from on high
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The night-taper was placed behind a screen; and the fire-light flickered with a tremulous motion on the richly-carved, antique furniture, black and polished by age, and creeping upwards, threw long, wavering shadows on the wall.
May Brooke Anna Hanson Dorsey 1855
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By day, one was plunged into utter obscurity; the sole thing that indicated a change of place was the smell, not so much because it was more agreeable than that of the staircase, as because it was distinct; on the contrary, at night, in the vague light shed by a cork night-taper afloat in the water and oil of a bowl that was attached to the wall by a brass ring, there could be seen through
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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