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candelabrumlike

candelabrumlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a candelabrum.

Adjective

candelabrumlike (comparative more candelabrumlike, superlative most candelabrumlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a candelabrum.
    • And now I took the Sixth Avenue El to Twenty-third Street, walked a block east to the intersection of Broadway and Fifth, and out in the street, protected by a marvelous candelabrumlike streetlamp—Why was it ever removed?—I set my camera on the rim of a large horse-trough, and took this time...1970, Jack Finney, chapter 18, in Time and Again, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 265
    • Figures have been introduced around a central candelabrumlike structure to add decorative interest to this pilaster.1994, Alain Gruber, translated by John Goodman, “Grotesques”, in Alain Gruber, editor, The History of Decorative Arts: Renaissance and Mannerism in Europe, New York, N.Y.: Abbeville Press, →ISBN...

Forms of candelabrumlike

comparativemore candelabrumlike
superlativemost candelabrumlike
alternative formcandelabralike

Origin of candelabrumlike

From candelabrum + -like.

Questions about candelabrumlike

What does candelabrumlike mean?
Candelabrumlike means resembling or characteristic of a candelabrum.
What part of speech is candelabrumlike?
Candelabrumlike is an adjective.

Words near candelabrumlike in the dictionary

  1. candelabraform
  2. candelabralike
  3. candelabras
  4. candelabrin
  5. candelabrum
  6. candelabrumlike
  7. candelabrums
  8. candelae
  9. Candelaria
  10. Candelaria de la Frontera
  11. Candelario

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