electrolier

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Then she picked up the Gubby dancers and led them in a clattering improvised lockstep thrice round the stage till her last kick sent her diamond-hiked shoe catherine-wheeling to the electrolier.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

Hat, gun and rod racks of feet, antlers and heads in various combinations are mentioned elsewhere and occasionally some one attempts an electrolier of antlers, mounted either on the heads or separately.

From Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Farnham, Albert B.

Margaret sought out a small bundle tied to the electrolier on the right hand side of the hall.

From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

Suddenly Maloney turned off every electric light except the lights in the electrolier, the glare of which was intensified by the surrounding darkness.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles

It was clad from head to foot in a long coat of black silk, which shimmered in the half-light of the electrolier.

From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar