Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A style of ornamentation adapted for lamps, decorative windows, and other transparencies, produced by impressing sheets of porcelain-glass, when in a soft state, with figures, which become visible by transmitted light.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as in a lamp shade or when hung in a window.
Examples
“I had no problem describing my bedroom in Saratoga Springs, from its dark blue drapes to the old oak bed to the lithophane lamp on the bedside table.”
“Among the eye-catching designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was the lithophane hanging lamps by the Spanish company Lladro, which has carried its porcelain expertise into interior lighting.”
“If you want to settle for something cheap and exquisite, stock up on the lithophane votive lights”
“It's cream and mint colored and has a lithophane of a Raphael angel in the bottom. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lithophane’.
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art & linguistics
macron, isochrony, irrealis, isogloss, majuscule, preverb, prevocalic, tonogenesis, volitive, experiencer, enclitic, lithophane and 24 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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2013 Words
Words looked up during 2013
muscadine, wisteria, mullions, chiaroscuro, lucubrate, anaerobe, anorectic, roke, quagga, blancmange, hyrax, pogrom and 6 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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JoshbGraham's list
Words I like and will use somewhere.
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