candlesticklike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From candlestick + -like.
Adjective
[edit]candlesticklike (comparative more candlesticklike, superlative most candlesticklike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a candlestick.
- 1993, Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew:
- a great heavy, many-armed candlesticklike thing which sits ornamentally in the center of the table