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lampshade

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lamp·shade  (lmpshd)
n.
Any of various protective or ornamental coverings used to screen a light bulb.
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Noun1.lampshadelampshade - a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view
lamp shade
lamp - a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
shade - protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight; "they used umbrellas as shades"; "as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"
Translations

lampshade [ˈlæmpʃeɪd] n → pantalla
lampshade [ˈlæmpʃeɪd] lamp n → abat-jour m inv
lampshade [ˈlæmpʃeɪd] n → Lampenschirm m
lampshade [ˈlæmpʃeɪd] n → paralume m
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These people came to see them without fail every year, usually at the capo d'anno, and of old her aunt used to make them some little present--her aunt and she together: small things that she, Miss Tita, made herself, like paper lampshades or mats for the decanters of wine at dinner or those woolen things that in cold weather were worn on the wrists.
The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context
She had a trunk for her clothes and another for the various odds and ends, cushions, lampshades, photograph frames, with which she had tried to give the apartments a home-like air; she had two or three large cardboard boxes besides, but in all there was no more than could be put on the roof of a four-wheeler.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The blow fell at dinner; and the old librarian said he should never forget the very look of the lampshades and the decanters, as the little lawyer, with a steady smile, proposed to the great landlord that they should halve the estates between them.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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