sconce

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sconce1

▶noun a candle holder attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket.

– origin ME (orig. denoting a portable lantern): from OFr. esconse ‘lantern’ or med. L. sconsa, from L. absconsa (laterna) ‘dark (lantern)’, from abscondere ‘to hide’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sconce2

▶noun archaic a small fort or earthwork.

– origin ME: from Du. schans ‘brushwood’, from Mid. High Ger. schanze.

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