electrolier
Noun

electrolier (plural electroliers)

  1. A fixture, usually hanging from the ceiling, for holding electric lamps.
    • 1917, Sinclair Lewis, "A Woman by Candlelight" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, 1962, p. 50,
      Also, the Hillbridge house was of an even more gorgeous fancifulness than he had remembered, in its tapestry and velours rockers with carved arms, and the storm of light from the bracket lamps and from the electrolier of crimson, pearl and orange mosaic glass.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,
      There was a gigantic electrolier, ten feet high, with upward-curling gilt branches opening into cloudy glass lilies of light.



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