candleshade

See also: candle-shade

English

Noun

candleshade (plural candleshades)

1. 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.