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vähentää A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle
~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:

strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper.

Love used to carry a bow, you know,

But now he carries a taper;

It is either a length of wax aglow,

Or a twist of lighted paper.

the taper of a spire.

The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.

Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.