candlelight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the soft light produced by one or more burning candles

   They ate dinner by candlelight during the power cut.

From Middle English candel light and related spellings, inherited as a compound from Old English candel leoht ("candlelight"). Candle was borrowed into Old English from Latin candela, from candere ("to shine, glow"); light is the native Germanic noun. The compound has referred to both a candle's illumination and, historically, the evening time when candles were lit.

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