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Dzè

[ boh-besh ]

noun

  1. a slightly cupped ring placed over the socket of a candleholder to catch the drippings of a candle.


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Origin of Dzè1

1895–1900; < French, of uncertain origin; bob- perhaps akin to the base of bobine bobbin
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Chaney’s wife, Jennifer Chaney, is across the cavernous room, painting a gold bobeche, a piece that sits on the base of chandelier candles.

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They bear names like Bobèche and Toastface Grillah, and devote page after page to elaborate cocktails.

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He made a great noise in his day, but nothing keeps his memory green except the Bobèche of Offenbach's Barbe-Bleue.

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Tabarin was the first of the series of clowns that enlivened the streets of Paris for two hundred years, or, at any rate, the first to attain celebrity: Bobèche in our own century was the last.

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We may mention, to complete the inventory, a hammock suspended from two nails inserted in the wall, a three-legged garden chair, a candlestick adorned with its bobeche, and some other similar objects of elegant art.

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