abat-jour

• abatjour

Borrowed from French abat-jour.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊ.ɚ/, /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊɹ/

abat-jour (plural abat-jours)

1. A skylight.
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.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors ((Can we date this quote?)), “abat-jour”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “abat-jour”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “abat-jour”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/

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abat-jour m (plural abat-jours or abat-jour)

1. lampshade
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Et l'abat-jour du quinquet, accroché dans la muraille au-dessus de la tête d'Emma, éclairait tous ces tableaux du monde, qui passaient devant elle les uns après les autres, dans le silence du dortoir et au bruit lointain de quelque fiacre attardé qui roulait encore sur les boulevards.

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

• “abat-jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from French abat-jour.

• IPA^(key): /a.baˈʒur/
• Rhymes: -ur

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

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

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

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abat-jour m (plural abat-jours)

1. (Jersey) blind

From French abat-jour.

• (Central Romagnol) IPA^(key): [ɐbɐˈðuːɾ]
  • (Ravenna) IPA^(key): [ɐbɐˈðuːɾ]

abat-jour m (plural abat-jour)

1. abat-jour

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