roman candle

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   a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire

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Questions about roman candle

What does roman candle mean?

roman candle means "a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire".

Is roman candle a common word?

roman candle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.