Meanings of candlewick in English

There were salmon-coloured candlewick bedspreads and a chandelier with small orange-pink shades, not quite matching.

The king snuffs out the candlewick and smears the soot between his thumb and forefinger.

I didn't know my dick from a candlewick.

Why doth the fire fasten upon the candlewick?

She was wearing an old candlewick bathrobe.

It took three matches before she managed to light the candlewick, and then she took out her thermos.

One exercise has them using tweezers to pluck tiny threads out of a lit candlewick without extinguishing the flame.

His mother was sitting in the sun in front of their tenement, braiding candlewick to sell in the marketplace.

She lit the candlewick with a match and watched it sputter and light, then she picked up the black key.

As it spurted into gold and blue flame, and the candlewick flared and then steadied, I began to remove my coat.

She lit a wooden taper from the kitchen fire, then transferred the flame first to one candlewick and then to the other.

A bizarrely clad troupe of men shoved past: pyjamas and greatcoats, one in a neon-yellow candlewick bedspread, another in a dressing-gown and balaclava.

It always reminded him of an antique candlewick spread he had once bought Jeana-immenserainbow flowers scattered over a background of pale green.

The departing decor reminded me of candlewick bedspreads, peeling wallpaper, creaking floorboards - and rent left inside for the landlord to pick-up on Friday.

He then set out and went everywhere in search of Candlewick.

He returned a second time, but Candlewick was not there.