"wax-candle" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1796, The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures:",
          "text": "To determine to what the ordinary variations in the quantity of light emitted by a common wax-candle might amount , I took such a candle , and , lighting it and placed it before the photometer, […]",
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          "text": "The artist said: \"Well! you'll go out and buy for me five francs' worth of wax-candles while I go and see the cooper.\"",
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          "ref": "2014, George Eliot, Felix Holt:",
          "text": "There was a delicate scent of dried rose-leaves; the light by which the minister was reading was a wax-candle in a white earthenware candle-stick, […]",
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          "text": "No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!",
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