Electrolier

Every lamp in the drawing room is shaded, and no one can complain of too much light. Not so, however in the boudoir, where the electric lamps are displayed in all their brilliancy, lighting up the rose du barri walls with a splendour enough to captivate a Frenchwoman. The silvered walls brackets, fender, and electrolier, by Messrs. Verity, are dazzling; […]

Artificial illumination is furnished by incandescent electric lamps pendant from a large corona and from side electroliers.

The electric fixtures are the best of their kind that have ever been placed in a public building. […] [E]ach of the thirty-one light electroliers in the Senate and House weighs nearly 900 pounds, and the cost of each was $1,176.00, while the 13 light electroliers in the Supreme Court and Governor's reception room weigh over 400 pounds each, and cost, the first nearly $600.00, and the latter nearly $400.00.

Also, the Hillbridge house was of an even more gorgeous fancifulness than he had remembered, in its tapestry and velours rockers with carved arms, and the storm of light from the bracket lamps and from the electrolier of crimson, pearl and orange mosaic glass.

Garofalo, the second fiddle, is black, beady-eyed and pot-bellied. The convex reflections of the electroliers slide back and forth over his polished bald head, as he bends, again, again, in little military salutes.

At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light. And behold, I was not in a cellar, but in a bedroom, a great rich garish bedroom, coloured blood red from top to bottom.

Early Electric! With what radiant hope / Men formed this many-branched electrolier, / Twisted the flex around the iron rope / And let the dazzling vacuum tubes hang clear, / And then with hearts the rich contrivance fill'd / Of copper, beaten by the Bromsgrove Guild.

There was a gigantic electrolier, ten feet high, with upward-curling gilt branches opening into cloudy glass lilies of light.

Each of the eight glass-topped tables featured 'a tiny portable electrolier of a very chaste design'.