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Definition of Lithophane
1. n. Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
2. n. Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as in a lamp shade.
Definition of Lithophane
1. Noun. A style of European porcelain in which the figures are seen by transmitted light ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lithophane
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lithophane
Literary usage of Lithophane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1895)
"... authors the name lithophane (1816) must be used. Only through such researches
can we arrive at the certain titles of our genera, and if we would one day ..."
2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1891)
"... one as lithophane, n. sp., and two as L. cinerea ; the two last are the most
distinct, because they are abnormally dwarfed specimens. ..."
3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1877)
"Besides the additional species of lithophane mentioned above, I have taken all
those given in my former list. The larvae of lithophane ..."
4. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1875)
"I have received, however, from Mr. Eoland Thaxter, •Newtonville, Mass., a specimen
of an undescribed American lithophane which quite nearly resembles the ..."
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