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cierges

cierges is the plural 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

Questions about cierges

What is cierges the plural of?
Cierges is the plural of cierge.

Words near cierges in the dictionary

  1. Cienfuegoses
  2. Cieplucha
  3. Ciepluchas
  4. Ciera
  5. cierge
  6. cierges
  7. Cieri
  8. Cieris
  9. Cierra
  10. Ciesielski
  11. Ciesielskis

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