sconce• Athelstan led Cranston round the church, stopped, and told the coroner to wait until he fetched a sconcetorch.• Why hadn't the man left a sconceburning?• I came out here with a sconce torch.• Why are the candle sconcesmounted like that on the armrests?• The lamps on it were fake candles, set in sconces like upturned lion's paws.• Using the lantern, Apanage lit candles set in sconces on the wall.• Multi-bracketed candelabra placed along the centre helped the sconce torches to bathe the room in light.• Benjamin pushed me in, locking the doorbehind us, and lit two sconce torches.
Originsconce
(1300-1400)Old Frenchesconse“screen for a light”, from escondre“to hide”, from Latinabscondere; → ABSCOND