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Candelabra


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Candelabrum

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  • (1) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
  • (2) Meanwhile, Dom (no relation) starts planning his own venture, a piri-piri chicken restaurant (drool), then goes cruising in a bath house where he meets Scott Bakula – hot off his Emmy-nominated performance in HBO's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra , and looking unfeasibly buff for a 59-year-old.
  • (3) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (4) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
  • (5) 11.21am BST In stark contrast, here's a fabulous little trailer for Behind the Candelabra , Steven Soderbergh's too-gay-for-Hollywood biopic of Liberace.
  • (6) September 23, 2013 Updated at 4.00am BST 2.04am BST Award: lead actress in a miniseries or movie Laura Linney, The Big C: Hereafter 2.04am BST So all the comedy awards have been dealt and it's time to do the first round tally for internet v television 2013 : Network - 3 Netflix - 0 Cable - 3 Updated at 2.05am BST 2.00am BST Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, the stars of the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra , are on hand to introduce Elton John, who has written a new song that reminds him of Liberace.
  • (7) He pointed to a facsimile of King Arthur's chain-mail crown apparatus, resting on a candelabra in his foyer.
  • (8) Tbh we'd normally be like yawn, energy + Northern = major boringsnoringness but Mummy is right, some of the bribe money has to end up as luxe goods, more if Bolesy can fix the planners *crosses fingers* which would be marv because she still 1,000 statement candelabras to shift from Christmas plus I am so excited for these adorbs Shopping & Fracking notebooks, cobalt lambskin & gold letters, I ordered the minute Dave said shale was going to be a thing?
  • (9) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
  • (10) Along the river are two very approximate reconstructions of historic buildings, and several oversized government headquarters, all within an idiom of Corinthian columns and mirror glass that has been absent from most European cities since the late 1980s; they are linked by bridges lined with golden candelabras and yet more statues.
  • (11) However, the two were no match for HBO's TV movie Behind the Candelabra, which beat both to be named best movie or miniseries.
  • (12) HBO has the second biggest haul of Golden Globes TV nominations, nine, including four for Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.
  • (13) By the end of the season they are eating hamburgers alone from a white tablecloth with candelabra, while everyone calls them ‘sir’.
  • (14) Chromogranin A immunostaining in the cell bodies and processes reveals the characteristic candelabra morphology seen in Golgi preparations of these cells.
  • (15) Douglas has this year been widely applauded for his role in Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra , as well as helping to raise public consciousness about links between the HPV virus and cancer .
  • (16) January 13, 2014 Michael Douglas is still a bit homophobic when he talks about portraying Liberace Let's move on to Michael Douglas's acceptance speech for his leading role in Behind the Candelabra, the HBO movie about Liberace.
  • (17) Directed by Steven Soderbergh for American TV , Behind the Candelabra is a tart, terrific biopic of Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson , who doubled as the pianist's brocaded chauffeur.
  • (18) The elaunin and oxytalan fibers in black skin are not disposed in candelabra-like formations.
  • (19) These included small and medium-sized pyramidal cells, whose apical dendrites often ramified in layer I; bipolar and bitufted cells with polarized, sparse dendritic arbors; small smooth or sparsely spinous multipolar cells with radiating dendrites and small dendritic fields; spinous multipolar cells, whose large dendritic fields had more extensive apical than basal arbors; large sparsely spinous multipolar cells with smooth, robust apical dendrites; tufted multipolar cells with highly developed apical dendrites and some dendritic appendages; and extraverted multipolar cells with a broad, candelabra-shaped dendritic configuration, and with most dendrites oriented at right angles to the pia.
  • (20) Behind the Candelabra, he says, arrived at the perfect moment.

Girandole


Definition:

  • (n.) An ornamental branched candlestick.
  • (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.
  • (n.) A kind of revolving firework.
  • (n.) A series of chambers in defensive mines.

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