girandole

See also: girándole

English

A design for a girandole

Alternative forms

• girandola

Etymology

From French girandole, from Italian girandola, from girare (“to turn, gyrate”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪrənˌdoʊl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪɹəndəʊl/

Noun

girandole (plural girandoles)

1. An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him...

   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 35:

     It was a scene of gaiety, glitter, and show; of richly–dressed people, handsome mirrors, chalked floors, girandoles and wax–candles; and in all parts of the scene, gliding from spot to spot in silent softness, bowing obsequiously to this party, nodding familiarly to that, and smiling complacently on all, was the sprucely–attired person of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, the Master of the Ceremonies.

2. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework which creates a "whirling top" or "flying saucer" effect.

Anagrams

• negroidal, reloading, ride along, ridealong

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian girandola.

Pronunciation

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Noun

girandole f (plural girandoles)

1. girandole

Further reading

• “girandole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

girandole f

1. plural of girandola

Anagrams

• Reginaldo, deraglino, rigandole, rigelando, rilegando