Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed / With naphtha and asphaltus.
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Cresset
/ˈkɹɛsɪt/
Synonyms for "cresset" (6 found)
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As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
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1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
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