electrolier
/əˌlɛk.tɹəˈlɪ.əɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fixture, usually hanging from a ceiling, for holding electric lamps; specifically, a chandelier lit by electricity rather than with candles or gas.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "Every lamp in the drawing room is shaded, and no one can complain of too much light. Not so, however in the boudoir, where the electric lamps are displayed in all their brilliancy, lighting up the rose du barri walls with a splendour enough to captivate a Frenchwoman. The silvered walls brackets, fender, and electrolier, by Messrs. Verity, are dazzling; […]"
- "Artificial illumination is furnished by incandescent electric lamps pendant from a large corona and from side electroliers."
- "The electric fixtures are the best of their kind that have ever been placed in a public building. […] [E]ach of the thirty-one light electroliers in the Senate and House weighs nearly 900 pounds, and the cost of each was $1,176.00, while the 13 light electroliers in the Supreme Court and Governor's reception room weigh over 400 pounds each, and cost, the first nearly $600.00, and the latter nearly $400.00."
- "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."
- "Garofalo, the second fiddle, is black, beady-eyed and pot-bellied. The convex reflections of the electroliers slide back and forth over his polished bald head, as he bends, again, again, in little military salutes."
- "At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light. And behold, I was not in a cellar, but in a bedroom, a great rich garish bedroom, coloured blood red from top to bottom."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˌlɛk.tɹəˈlɪ.əɹ/
- British English: /ɪˌlɛk.tɹəˈlɪ.ə/