Definition of "electrolier" [e•lec•tro•lier]

• A fixture, usually pendent from the ceiling, for holding electric lamps. (noun)

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• "A stack of newspapers had accumulated on the centre table under the "electrolier", and half a dozen paper novels lay on the mantelpiece among cigar-cases and toilet bottles; but these traces of his passage had made no mark on the featureless dulness of the room, its look of being the makeshift setting of innumerable transient collocations."
• "Two are outstanding: A five-light electrolier of 1904, with pendant lanterns suspended from a helmet-like framework of hammered iron bands, would be at home in Wagner's Valhalla."
• "A valuable ruby on his little finger winked malevolently in the clear flood of light from the electrolier."