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sconce

noun as in candlestick

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verb as in fine

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The person who cares for things unusual will find the candle sconce made of a cowhorn a suitable fixture for the den.

He placed the candle in a sconce on the wall, and then turned to the three.

A silver griffin of a sconce near by held a light in its claws, which fell full upon Cimburga and the miller's son.

Here and there a torch glimmered in a sconce against the wall, or a surgeon with a candle in his hand paused at a bedside.

He shut the window, drew curtains over it, switched off the lighted sconce, and went up-stairs.

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