FromFrenchabattre jour (any contrivance or apparatus to admit light, or to throw it in a desired direction, as a lamp-shade).
abat-jour (pluralabat-jours)
- 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.
- 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.
- Century Dictionary, volume 1,1889, page 6
Fromabat(“breaks down”) +jour(“light”).
abat-jour m (pluralabat-joursorabat-jour)
- lampshade
- (dated)eyeshade
- (architecture)skylight
Unadapted borrowing fromFrenchabat-jour.
abat-jour m or(occasionally)f (invariable)
- lampshade
- alamp with a lampshade,particularly abedside lamp
- abat-jour in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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abat-jour m (pluralabat-jours)
- (Jersey)blind
FromFrenchabat-jour.
- (Central Romagnol):IPA(key): [ɐbɐˈðuːɾ]
abat-jour m (pluralabat-jour)
- abat-jour
- Masotti, Adelmo (1996),Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 1
