candle-shade

plural candle-shades · alternative candleshade

1. A cover over the flame of a candle or bulb of a lamp to protect the flame or diffuse the light to prevent glare.

   ...do you think you could lower that candle-shade just a little?

   1892, F. Anstey, The Talking Horse And Other Tales, →ISBN

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   Neigh was a man who never disturbed the flesh upon his face except when he was obliged to do so, and paused ten seconds where other people only paused one; as he moved his chin in speaking, motes of light from under the candle-shade caught, lost, and caught again the outlying threads of his burnished beard.

   1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta - A Comedy in Chapters

   He had removed the green abat-jour, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office.

   1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Finds Himself Committed”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 191

   […] is a comparatively rare brass candlestick with a cylindrical glass candle-shade, and perforated brass cup […]

   2002, R. Goodwin-Smith, Decorative Iron and Metalwork: Great Examples from English Sources