Electrolier

Quick meaning: Electrolier is a noun meaning (dated) A fixture, usually hanging from a ceiling, for holding electric lamps; specifically, a chandelier lit by electricity rather than with candles or gas.

Meaning

(dated) A fixture, usually hanging from a ceiling, for holding electric lamps; specifically, a chandelier lit by electricity rather than with candles or gas.

Example Sentences

Artificial illumination is furnished by incandescent electric lamps pendant from a large corona and from side electroliers.

There was a gigantic electrolier, ten feet high, with upward-curling gilt branches opening into cloudy glass lilies of light.

Garofalo, the second fiddle, is black, beady-eyed and pot-bellied. The convex reflections of the electroliers slide back and forth over his polished bald head, as he bends, again, again, in little military salutes.

Also, the Hillbridge house was of an even more gorgeous fancifulness than he had remembered, in its tapestry and velours rockers with carved arms, and the storm of light from the bracket lamps and from the electrolier of crimson, pearl and orange mosaic glass.

Word Forms

• electroliers

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