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‖ abat-jour Arch.|abaˈʒuːr| [mod.Fr. = ce qui abat le jour, what throws down the daylight.] a. A sky-light. (Hardly in Eng. use; not in Gwilt.) b. A device for reflecting light downwards.
1830in Britton Dict. Archit. 1853J. W. Croker in Q. Rev. XCIII. 413 He was confined to a single room..it had one window, closely barred and blinded by an abat-jour, which admitted only a small degree of oblique light. 1936Burlington Mag. July 31/2 Two candlesticks behind are formed of leaves; between them is a vertical metal post bearing on the upper part a movable canopy serving as abat-jour. |