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n. - An ornate candle holder.

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  • At night at Torlonia's to see the girandola, which is as fine as fireworks can be, but nothing will do after the illumination of
  • "Our girandola is second only to that of St. Peter," he said, smiling.
  • Irradiations in gold, scintillations in crimson, splendors in emerald, lucidities in ultramarine -- a dazzling girandola of every tint and of every hue.
  • The Roman air did not agree with me, and I hastened, therefore, as soon as I had seen the illumination of the dome and the girandola, immediately after the Easter...
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