cannel coal
English
editEtymology
editCorrupted from candle coal.
Noun
editcannel coal (countable and uncountable, plural cannel coals)
- cannel (type of coal)
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.