abat-jour

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English

Etymology

French abattre jour any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade

Noun

abat-jour (plural abat-jours)

  1. A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
  2. A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.

References

  • Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 6

French

Etymology

From abat (“breaks down”) +‎ jour (“light”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/
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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

  1. lampshade
  2. (dated) eyeshade
  3. (architecture) skylight

Descendants

Descendants

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

Noun

abat-jour m or (occasionally) f (invariable)

  1. lampshade
  2. a lamp with a lampshade, particularly a bedside lamp

Further reading

  • abat-jour in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

  1. (Jersey) blind

Romagnol

Etymology

From French abat-jour.

Pronunciation

  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key):

Noun

abat-jour m (plural abat-jour)

  1. abat-jour

References

  • Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 1
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