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Lampshade

noun
1.
A protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view.  Synonym: lamp shade.






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"Lampshade" Quotes from Famous Books



... sitting in the little room that was still called his office, but that was really his study now, and the late afternoon light, through the replaced rose vine, streamed in on the shabby books and the green lampshade and ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris

... did not touch her glass; she sat still, with her eyes on the yellow lampshade. She had not yet given up all her dreams of going forth and conquering the world with her music—and he sat there rolling out eternity itself before her, while he and she herself, her parents, all, all became as chaff blown ...
— The Great Hunger • Johan Bojer

... himself. He went back to his study, and this time attacked his work resolutely. In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on ...
— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Lampshade" :   lamp, shade



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