Crossword clues for lampshade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lampshade \lampshade\, lamp shade \lamp shade\n. a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view.
Wiktionary
n. A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions so it doesn't cause glare by shining directly in one's eyes. vb. (label en narratology fandom slang) To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself.
WordNet
n. a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view [syn: lamp shade]
Wikipedia
A lampshade is a fixture that covers the lightbulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits. Conical, cylindrical and other forms on floor-, desk- or table top-mounted as well as suspended lamp models are the most common and are made in a wide range of materials. The term can also apply to the glass hung under many designs of ceiling lamp. Beyond its practical purpose, significant emphasis is also usually given to decorative and aesthetic features.
Usage examples of "lampshade".
All morning, I was upstairs trying on different combinations of clothes and going downstairs to where the caseworker was vacuuming lampshades to ask her what she thought.
And without more ado he picked up my glass along with the one the bartender had fixed for him, and carried them over to two wooden armchairs under a multicolored lampshade by the wall.
Lava lamps, kidney-shaped plastic tables, a lampshade made out of Bon Ami and Ajax cleanser cartons, wrought-iron and black-canvas chairs you sank down into like hammocks, an old Motorola console TV.
Assistant Director on Lampshades from Hell or whatever the fuck it was.
No old world charm, no warming pans, oak beams, red lampshades, pewter mugs: no car park either.
There were touches of black in the throw pillows and lampshades, Boston ferns providing spots of green here and there.
Padded and pelmetted curtains and silk lampshades and Staffordshire china dogs all spoke of enough money somewhere in the past, but the holes in the worn flowery chintz sofa covers were truer of the present.
Lampshades and slipcovers and the cushions on the dining room chairseverything is to be brushed or washed or measured for replacement.
All this footage had been bowdlerized, on the set, for hotel use, with a strategic lampshade here, a fruit bowl there.
A plate of spaghetti, the spirograph pattern on a lampshade, the crazy paving in the back garden.
She ran through the side streets, beneath white fluorescent teats which dangled beneath lampshades, past detached houses encrusted with pebble-dash and whitewash.
Curtains, cushion covers and lampshades are all good litmus indicators for a slight diversion in the timestream – the way canaries are used down the mines or goldfishes to predict earthquakes.
Pale shag, silk lampshades, velvet wing chairs, brocade, imitation Tiffany stained glass, Japanese lacquer, gilt mirror frames.
There was a lot to put politeness to the test: turquoise walls, a painted vase (the scene: a woman in pedal pushers walking a poodle), Lava lamps, kidney-shaped plastic tables, a lampshade made out of Bon Ami and Ajax cleanser cartons, wrought-iron and black-canvas chairs you sank down into like hammocks, an old Motorola console TV.
There were rich green plush curtains hung at the windows, and gas lamps in brackets on both sides, covered with etched-glass lampshades, and the luggage rack overhead, the hand rails, the arm rests, the curtain rings, were all of polished brass.