As I have hinted, I do not know just what costumes they were, but they took the light well from the girandole far aloof and from the thousands of little electric bulbs that beaded the roof in long lines, and dispersed the sullenness of the dull, rainy afternoon.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
The white panelling of the walls was broken here and there by a mirror, or a girandole, delicate work of the same date as the Riesener table; while halfway down two Rose du Barri tapestries faced each other, glowing in the June sun.
"The Mating of Lydia"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
The 30th, it began to flow again in the same direction, whilst the mouth of the Volcano threw up every minute a girandole of red hot stones, to an immense height.
"Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos"
William Hamilton