Cierge (noun) (historic)
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A wax candle, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
Middle English from Old French cerge, from Latin cereas ‘wax taper’.
Example sentences
“The cierges lighted upon the altar.”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…