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Definition of Lamp shade
1. Noun. A protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamp Shade
Literary usage of Lamp shade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Color in Everyday Life: A Manual for Lay Students, Artisaus and Artists; the by Louis Weinberg (1918)
"... not only satisfactory but even highly desirable is the use of colored lights.
The lamp-shade or electric globe can be of such a hue as to throw ..."
2. Curiosities of Glass Making: With Details of the Processes and Productions by Apsley Pellatt (1849)
"... FRENCH LAMP-SHADE. The following is another illustration of the process of
making by hand. For many years, the trade in French ..."
3. The Kindergarten Guide: An Illustrated Hand-book, Designed for the Self by Maria Kraus-Boelte, John Kraus (1881)
"A Lamp-Shade, with 2 large colored pictures,7i" high. $0.50. No. 1475. ...
1483 1484 1485 A Lamp-Shade, gilt, and with 4 pictures, 7i" high. $0.60. ..."
4. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1895)
"'GLOBE" LAMP-SHADE OR LAMP-GLOBE. STANDARD STYLES OK LAMP-SHADES: SPECIAL FORMS
FOB STUDENT AMD OTHER LAMPS. (The use of these Standards in the trade is ..."
5. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"A shade cup is an equivalent device for a lamp shade. LAMP HOLDER. ... lamp shade.
2, FIGS. 2694-2710. A conical shaped reflector placed over a lamp to ..."
6. The New Interior, Modern Decorations for the Modern Home by Hazel Hyman Adler (1916)
"If the upholstery is figured, it is well to have the lamp shade plain and the
accent on the predominant color of the upholstery; while if the upholstery is ..."
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