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- a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket（有装饰性支架的）壁式烛台。
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- a flaming torch or candle secured in such a candle holder（壁式烛台上点燃的）火炬, 灯烛。
词源
late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame)：shortening of Old French esconse 'lantern'， or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa （laterna） 'dark (lantern)' （i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light）， from abscondere 'to hide'.
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- archaic a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate〈古〉（防守要津、关隘、城门等的）小堡垒。
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- a shelter or screen serving as protection from fire or the weather防火罩; 防雨罩。
词源
late Middle English:from Dutch schans 'brushwood'， from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense 'screen， interior partition' derives perhaps from SCONCE1; the later senses date from the late 16th cent.