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How to pronounce candlewick in English?

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Type Words
Type of fancywork, embroidery
Type Words
Type of wick, taper

Examples of candlewick

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Candlewick also plans to publish her young adult novel about a 16-year-old healer.
From the freep.com
Candlewick bedspreads, swirly carpets and trouser presses?
From the telegraph.co.uk
An accurate reproduction of Hendrix's suite would probably be furnished with G-Plan furniture and a candlewick bedspread.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Candlewick Press, one of the country's premier children's book publishers, released the book in late September.
From the orlandosentinel.com
But Hulbert believes that by measuring these two gases he can tell how quickly this candlewick we call life will burn down.
From the newscientist.com
Behind her, a teddy bear lies on the candlewick bedspread, while downstairs her flatmate is urging their weekly appointment with Dr Finlay's Casebook.
From the guardian.co.uk
I turn my face and see a candlewick flare up and glide to the night table, and before I can quite comprehend it all, the business end of a pistol barrel is resting coldly on my left temple.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • The wick of a candle
  • Loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern
  • Candlewick is a small ward, one of the 25 ancient wards in the City of London.
  • Candlewick (Lucignolo) is a fictional character who appears in Carlo Collodi's book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio).
  • Candlewicking is a form of whitework embroidery that traditionally uses an unbleached cotton thread on a piece of unbleached muslin. It gets its name from the nature of the soft spun cotton thread, which was braided then used to form the wick for candles. ...
  • Muslin base fabric tufted with heavy plied yarns providing fuzzy designs.
  • A tufted pile fabric with a fuzzy surface that looks like chenille . It is made by looping a heavy plied yarn on a muslin base then cutting the loops. Used for bedspreads, robes, draperies.
  • A soft cotton embroidery yarn.