ˈwax-ˌchandler
[See chandler1 2.]
One whose trade is to make or sell wax candles.
| 1418 E.E. Wills (1882) 34 Iohn Baldok,..Waxchaundeler of London. 1466 Paston Lett. II. 270 To John Orford, wax chandeler, for xii. torches and one candell of i. lb., lvs. iid. ob. 1503 Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830) 103 To John Hynsted of London wexchaundeler for iij rolles of white wex [etc.]. 1543 tr. Act 11 Hen. VI, c. 12 The waxchaundelers in dyuers parties of England. 1633 Stow's Surv. Lond. 625 The Company of Wax-Chandlers, having beene a Brotherhood of very ancient standing,..became yet to be incorporated in Anno, 1484. 1706 Lond. Gaz. No. 4287/4 William Rack, late of St. Saviour's.., Waxchandler. 1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata I. viii. 197 The old wax-chandler was a widower of many years' standing. |