sconce
sconce1
noun
sconce2
noun
noun
- a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket
（有装饰性支架的）壁式烛台
■a flaming torch or candle secured in such a candle holder
（壁式烛台上点燃的）火炬，灯烛
- late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame): shortening of Old French esconse 'lantern', or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna) 'dark (lantern') (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light), from abscondere 'to hide'
sconce2
noun
- (archaic)a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
(古)（防守要津、关隘、城门等地）小堡垒
■a shelter or screen serving as protection from fire or the weather
防火罩；防雨罩
- late Middle English: from Dutch schans 'brushwood', from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense 'screen, interior partition' derives perhaps from sconce; the later senses date from the late 16th cent
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