veilleuse
English
Etymology
From French.
Noun
veilleuse (plural veilleuses)
- A shaded night-lamp
French
Pronunciation
Noun
veilleuse f (plural veilleuses)
- female equivalent of veilleur
- night light
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- Quand il rentrait au milieu de la nuit, il n'osait pas la réveiller. La veilleuse de porcelaine arrondissait au plafond une clarté tremblante, et les rideaux fermés du petit berceau faisaient comme une hutte blanche qui se bombait dans l'ombre, au bord du lit.
- When he came home in the middle of the night, he did not dare to wake her. The porcelain night-light threw a round trembling gleam upon the ceiling, and the drawn curtains of the little cot formed as it were a white hut standing out in the shade, and by the bedside Charles looked at them.
- sidelight (on a car)
- pilot light
Derived terms
- la mettre en veilleuse (“put on the back burner”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “veilleuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012