lampshade
IPA: ɫˈæmʃeɪd
noun
- A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.
verb
- (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.
- (fashion) To wear an oversize top with skintight thigh-high boots and no leggings.
- To adorn with one or more lampshades.
- To design or create lampshades.
lamp shade
IPA: ɫˈæmpʃˈeɪd
noun
- a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view
lamp-shade
IPA: ɫˈæmpʃˈeɪd
noun
- Alternative form of lampshade [A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.]
Examples of "lampshade" in Sentences
- The loop also acts as the harp for a lampshade.
- Go now, get a lampshade or a teacosy on your head.
- Her skirt became a draped miniskirt not a lampshade.
- A novel lampshade concept, in formation and assembly.
- Particularly the lampshade that masquerades as a bedskirt.
- Except that the lampshade was a sort of cloth contraption.
- It is not known if she had this made into a lampshade or not.
- I can, however, say with reasonable certainty what the lampshade is to me.
- The Polish word for lampshade is abażur, no doubt borrowed from the French.
- It was subsequently detirmined that the lampshade was made out of goat skin.
- The man with the lampshade is completely ficticious, right? on 03 Jul 2009 at 12: 48 am Jo Ann
- It's as if Target has employed some sort of Schrödinger's Inventory software, where if the system doesn't "see" the SKU, the lampshade is neither alive nor dead.
- Some answers were obtained, most shockingly that the according to extensive testing at one of the country 's top DNA laboratory, the lampshade is "real", or in the words of the lab report "of human origin."
- In fact, they didn't have any record of the lampshade he was holding in his handsit wasn't in their computer, and therefore it didn't exist, even after his wife went and brought an identical lampshade from the store shelves to the customer service counter.
- One thing I was told, by a number of Holocaust authorities, was that the idea of the human skin lampshade, a specter that had inspired much inchoate fear in my nine-year old mind as I grew up in Queens during the 1950's, was not thought to have ever existed.
Examples of "lamp-shade" in Sentences
- He also experimented with lamp-shade tunics and hobble skirts.
- I wanted to throw the lamp-shade lane sign over my head and pretend I was a fixture.
- It is not uncommon for children with learning problems to have unique or idiosyncratic interests or hobbies e.g., 1930s jazz, lamp-shade collections, and they may expect their peers to share their enthusiasm for these interests.