abat-jour
See also: abatjour
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)
- 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.
References
- 1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 6
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba.ʒuʁ/
Descendants
- → Albanian: abazhur
- → Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʾabāžūr)
- → Bulgarian: абажур (abažur)
- → Crimean Tatar: abajur
- → Czech: abažúr
- → English: abatjour
- → Estonian: abažuur
- → Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
- → Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)
- → Italian: abat-jour
- → Latvian: abažūrs
- → Lithuanian: abažūras
- → Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)
- → Polish: abażur
- → Portuguese: abajur
- → Romanian: abajur
- → Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Turkish: abajur
Further reading
- “abat-jour” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
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