girandole
IPA: dʒɝˈændoʊɫ
noun
- An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework which creates a "whirling top" or "flying saucer" effect.
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Examples of "girandole" in Sentences
- On the pans that hung like haloes over the sink and on the winged girandole by the stairs it shone.
- Back to the pasta bentos – penne (actually girandole) with creamy sundried tomato sauce, pine nuts and rucola.
- I have seen a set of cut-glass sent to Calcutta for the purpose, or a girandole, too handsome for Brazilian purchasers.
- By the 18th century "girandole" was being used for a branched candlestick, perhaps due to its resemblance to the firework.
- The earliest uses of "girandole" in English, in the 17th century, referred to a kind of firework or to something, such as a fountain, with a radiating pattern like that of a firework.
- The choice furniture is arranged among paintings, girandole mirrors, lamps, porcelain and silver that would once have been prized by the carriage trade knocking on Phyfe's showroom door.
- Such a pattern is reflected in the word's etymology: "girandole" can be traced back, by way of French and Italian, to the Latin word "gyrus," meaning "gyre" or "a circular or spiral motion or form."
- It was tastefully appointed with expensive antiques -- such as an early-nineteenth-century French giltwood barometer, an Italian girandole and a Chinese enamel hanging lantern -- decorative paintings, and plush furnishings.
- A pair of girandole ear-rings of brilliants, each consisting of a large stud brilliant and of three pear-shaped brilliants united by four small ones; another pair of ear-rings composed of fourteen small brilliants forming a clustre of grapes, each stud of a single brilliant.
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