sconce
skons
- n a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
- n a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- n a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- n a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- She celebrated by breaking into a Pottery Barn and shoplifting a sconce.
- He boasts that he broke the Exeter sconce record, a complicated dining-hall punishment for bad etiquette in which the offender was forced to drink nearly two pints of beer in 30 .
- According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth.