wall-shade

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English

Noun

wall-shade (plural wall-shades)

  1. A bracket attached to a wall, bearing a candle or lamp protected by a candle-shade.
    • 1866, Emily Eden, Up the Country:
    We brought carpets, and chandeliers, and wall shades (the great staple commodity of Indian furniture), from Calcutta []