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Definition of Eyeshade

1. Noun. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes. "He pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

Definition of Eyeshade

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. (context: not countable) A cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyeshade

1. a visor for shading the eyes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeshade

Literary usage of Eyeshade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ophthalmic Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of Ophthalmology (1900)
"Dear Dr. Mitchell: I have to thank you for the very kind and courteous way you allude to me in your paper on "A Simple eyeshade" in THE OPHTHALMIC RECORD. ..."

2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"Peeping across from my own quarters, I saw that his head had fallen upon his chest, the eyeshade down. As I looked, he made a slight movement, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"The cap was also of grey cloth, with a flexible cloth peak or eyeshade. Cross shoulder - belts, also of cloth, supported the bayonet and sword prescribed by ..."

4. The Life of Edward Fitzgerald by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... minutes in the garden, where he used to walk with blue glasses and a green eyeshade, and sometimes for four or five days he would not see them at all. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"5) is large and broad like an eyeshade; it covers and protects the mouth-parts, but works at the same time as a scraper; it is firmly connected with the ..."

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