cierge

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɪə̯dʒ/|/sɪˈɛə̯ʒ/    美 /sɪɹd͡ʒ/|/siˈɛɹʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wax candle used in religious rites.
    — The fire was lighted in the drawing-room, and in the soft obscurity Toppie with her high golden head looked like a tall white lighted cierge; a Christmas cierge in a votive chapel of a great cathedral; for though so sweet, so almost gay, the background to Toppie's gaiety was something dedicated and remote.

词形变化

cierges plural

词源

From earlier cerge, from Middle English serge, cerge, from Old French cierge, cerge from Latin cereus (“waxy”), from cera (“wax”). The current pronunciation is learnedly taken from modern French cierge (with varying degrees of nativisation).
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