A spherical candle or a ball-shaped object made of wax or tallow used for illumination.
Compound word: candle (Latin candela) + ball (from Old Norse bollr). This is a relatively rare term, most commonly found in historical texts referring to novelty or spherical lights.
Before electric lights, people got creative with candle shapes—candleballs, floating candles, and carved candles were all ways to make lighting more interesting when you spent most evenings in candlelight!
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