Sentence:  The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a <WSD>Brobdingnagian</WSD> species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.