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cerge

cerge is the obsolete form of cierge.

Meaning of cierge

Noun

cierge (plural cierges)

  1. A wax candle used in religious rites.
    • The fire was lighted in the drawing-room, and in the soft obscurity Toppie with her high golden head looked like a tall white lighted cierge; a Christmas cierge in a votive chapel of a great cathedral; for though so sweet, so almost gay, the background to Toppie's gaiety was something dedicated and...1924, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, “Chapter 7”, in The Little French Girl

Forms of cerge

pluralcerges

Questions about cerge

What is cerge the obsolete form of?
Cerge is the obsolete form of cierge.

Words near cerge in the dictionary

  1. cerevisiae
  2. Cerezo
  3. Cerezos
  4. Cerf
  5. Cerfs
  6. cerge
  7. cerges
  8. cergutuzumab
  9. Cergău
  10. Ceri
  11. ceria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cerge (page history and authors); cierge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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