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eyeshade

n. 1 (context countable English) A type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light, usually consisting of a visor and a headband, more popular among indoor workers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries than today. 2 (context not countable English) A cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration.

WordNet
eyeshade

n. a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" [syn: bill, peak, visor, vizor]

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Eyeshade

Eyeshade or eye shade may refer to:

  • Cosmetic products which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration. See eye shadow.
  • Blindfolds, such as a sleep-mask
  • Visors, surfaces that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun.
    • Green eyeshade, an iconic form of type popular in the late 19th and early 20th century

Usage examples of "eyeshade".

The station agent, in green eyeshade and black alpaca worksleeves, leaned through the ticket window, talking to a friend.

She wore a green eyeshade, and she rolled a yellow pencil restlessly in her fingers.

She was at her desk, green eyeshade low, and she did not look around at him.

Tony Wills was known as a careful conservative analyst, and one of the best Langley had ever turned out, despite the green eyeshade and the garters on the sleeves.

He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusively opened a drawer.

She wore no personal adornment to the meeting save the ubiquitous eyeshades favored by her kind, tinted to spare her sensitive pupils.

Caldaq watched Hivistahm techs fiddle with their eyeshades as they conversed.

Lloyd drove, and Gayle sat in the passenger seat with the gun aimed at mother and son, blinded with Qantas eyeshades.

How ever, she'd insisted that he wear eyeshades to conceal his alien ness.

He still wore the eyeshades she'd given him to conceal his Amnion fea tures.

The pressure snatched his eyeshades off his face, shattered them to splinters on one of the bulkheads.

Groups in saffron robes and eyeshades occupied other booths, the spongy walls drinking the sound of their voices.

Her mother, who lay in a canopied bed similar to Tess's, wore eyeshades, even though the draperies were closed.

Even with the protection of the eyeshades, it was like looking at the sun.

They managed to grab onto the magnets and whipped their eyeshades off in time to see the tank and the torch, still lit, plunge out of sight into the depths.