Definition of "candlesticks" [candlesticks]

• Plural form of candlestick. (noun)

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• "As a little girl in Brooklyn, Betty once tried to steal a pair of candlesticks from a local emporium."
• "At nightfall they lighted waxen candles in candlesticks of gold studded with gems and set on dishes of confections and fruits of sugar-candy."
• "Thus, the arrangements of her table were mean, her fare meagre for a hermit; but the linen was matchlessly fine, and wax lights stood in candlesticks which a beggar would almost have disdained to own."