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English
Noun
candle light (uncountable)
- Alternative form of candlelight.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 384:He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares, / That in his youth had beene of mickle might, / And borne great ſway in armes amongſt his peares: / But now weake age had dimd his candle light.
1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume II, page 288:8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships,
- 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night
- O, how I long to be agen
- That poor and independent man,
- With labour's lot from morn to night
- And books to read at candle light;