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Definition of Girandola
1. Noun. An ornate candle holder; often with a mirror.
Definition of Girandola
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girandola
Literary usage of Girandola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... tricks with concealed pipes, which they call the girandola, is really pretty—a
large body of water thrown up a considerable height in one great gerbe. ..."
2. Letters from Italy by Joel Tyler Headley (1848)
"Illumination of St. Peter's—The girandola. ROME, April, 1843. DEAR E.—I was too
weary to give you in my last a description of the closing up of Easter ..."
3. Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to by Gilbert Elliot Minto (1874)
"We had a most beautiful firework from the Castel S. Angelo on Monday and Tuesday,
which begins and ends "by the famous girandola. Last Wednesday we had a ..."
4. Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy by Frances Elliot (1872)
"Peter and Paul—St. Peter's Illuminated— The girandola THE Feast of SS. Peter and
Paul is the birthday of Rome. Heat and the fear of malaria have by that ..."
5. Notes of a residence at Rome, in 1846 by M. Vicary (1847)
"IL girandola.— OBJECT OF PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONS.—THE CARNIVAL. UPON the following
evening the ... II girandola is a great favourite with the Roman populace. ..."
6. Italy in the Nineteenth Century by James Whiteside (1860)
"girandola. — Colosseum by Moonlight. — An Opinion of Mr. Laing'e disputed.
THERE is in Rome a noble family named the Massimi; they claim descent from Fabius ..."
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