gasolier
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gasolier (plural gasoliers)
- Alternative form of gasalier
- 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
- Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.
References
[edit]- “gasolier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gasolier”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.