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candle-shade

candle-shade noun: a cover over the flame of a candle or bulb of a lamp to protect the flame or diffuse the light to prevent glare.

Noun

candle-shade (plural candle-shades)

  1. A cover over the flame of a candle or bulb of a lamp to protect the flame or diffuse the light to prevent glare.
    • ...do you think you could lower that candle-shade just a little?1892, F. Anstey, The Talking Horse And Other Tales, →ISBN
    • Neigh was a man who never disturbed the flesh upon his face except when he was obliged to do so, and paused ten seconds where other people only paused one; as he moved his chin in speaking, motes of light from under the candle-shade caught, lost, and caught again the outlying threads of his...1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta - A Comedy in Chapters

Examples of candle-shade in a sentence

  • He had removed the green abat-jour, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office.1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Finds Himself Committed”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The...
  • […] is a comparatively rare brass candlestick with a cylindrical glass candle-shade, and perforated brass cup […]2002, R. Goodwin-Smith, Decorative Iron and Metalwork: Great Examples from English Sources:

Forms of candle-shade

pluralcandle-shades
alternative formcandleshade

Questions about candle-shade

What does candle-shade mean?
Candle-shade means a cover over the flame of a candle or bulb of a lamp to protect the flame or diffuse the light to prevent glare.
How do you use candle-shade in a sentence?
He had removed the green abat-jour, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office.
What part of speech is candle-shade?
Candle-shade is a noun.
What is the plural of candle-shade?
The plural of candle-shade is candle-shades.

Words near candle-shade in the dictionary

  1. candle wax
  2. candle waxes
  3. candle-end
  4. candle-ends
  5. candle-light
  6. candle-shade
  7. candle-shades
  8. candle-snuffer
  9. candle-stub
  10. candle-stubs
  11. candle-waster

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