Appears in: Café du Néant
Frequency: 1
Definition:
(noun) 1) a small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light; 2) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as the taper of a spire (MW)
A Lexicon from Mina Loy's 1923 "Lunar Baedecker"