candleshade
See also: candle-shade
English
editNoun
editcandleshade (plural candleshades)
- Alternative form of candle-shade
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray[1]:
- […] he had sat opposite to him at the club, the red candleshades staining to a richer rose the wakening wonder of his face.
- 1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy:
- ..on turning saw upon the mantelshelf a small, bright-red candleshade, which I took in my hand. It was made, I found, to fit upon the electric tablelamp.
- 1987, Donald Stanwood, The Seventh Royale: A Novel:
- She smiled, an enigma in the wavering light of our candleshade.