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cresset

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cres·set  (krst)
n.
A metal cup, often suspended on a pole, containing burning oil or pitch and used as a torch.
[Middle English, from Old French, alteration of croisuel, probably from Vulgar Latin *croceolus, small lamp.]
cresset [ˈkrɛsɪt]
n
(Historical Terms) History a metal basket mounted on a pole in which oil or pitch was burned for illumination
[from Old French craisset, from craisse grease]


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And quite enchanted with his joke, the ferocious Orangeman took his cresset and his keys to conduct Cornelius to the cell, which on that very morning Cornelius de Witt had left to go into exile, or what in revolutionary times is meant instead by those sublime philosophers who lay it down as an axiom of high policy, "It is the dead only who do not return.
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The apartment was lighted by a small cresset hanging from a rafter near the center of the room.
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Light this halt of the pilgrims by the wild red flames of cressets and torches, streaming up at intervals from every part of the innumerable throng.
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