Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protective or ornamental covering used to screen a light bulb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shade or screen placed above or around the flame of a lamp, to intercept, modify, or reflect the light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A cover over a
lamp to eitherdiffuse the light or to block it in certain directions so it doesn't cause glare by shining directly in one's eyes. - verb narratology To intentionally call attention to the
improbable ,incongruent , orclichéd nature of anelement orsituation featured in a work offiction within the work itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view
- noun a protective ornamental shade used to screen a light bulb from direct view
Etymologies
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Examples
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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."
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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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.
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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I can, however, say with reasonable certainty what the lampshade is to me.
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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The man with the lampshade is completely ficticious, right? on 03 Jul 2009 at 12: 48 am Jo Ann
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Platforms and Opportunities 2009
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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.
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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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."
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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I can, however, say with reasonable certainty what the lampshade is to me.
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil Mark Jacobson 2010
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The Polish word for lampshade is abażur, no doubt borrowed from the French.
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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.
Target Refuses Return, Says If Computer Doesn't Show Item, It Doesn't Exist - The Consumerist 2008
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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.
Target Refuses Return, Says If Computer Doesn't Show Item, It Doesn't Exist - The Consumerist 2008
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