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Start with Accessories Use interchangeable pieces like colorful placemats, candleholders and candlesticks, salt and pepper mills, and even those trendy and oh-so-cute rechargeable lamps as your base.—Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025 His character’s demise was when he was beaten to death with a candlestick by Scotty Baldwin (Kin Shriner).—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 11 June 2025 Robinson was a series regular on GH for 10 years and briefly returned in 2002, only to meet a gruesome end when his character was bludgeoned to death with a candlestick by Scotty Baldwin (Kin Shriner), Laura's ex-husband.—Mekishana Pierre Published, EW.com, 11 June 2025 Things poke their heads in from stage left or stage right; a candlestick slightly too big for its rectangle hunches to one side; countless pairs of bottles and cups and pitchers seem to be shoving at each other like two kids in the back of a minivan.—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for candlestick
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of candlestick was
before the 12th century
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