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Definition of Eyeshades
1. eyeshade [n] - See also: eyeshade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeshades
Literary usage of Eyeshades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... problem- oriented people who think of taxono- mists and systematists as guys
with green eyeshades or with pith helmets and butterfly nets," Galler said. ..."
2. The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School, 1817-1917 by Harvard Law School Association (1886- ) (1918)
""No doubt the student's ideas of the law are often as verdant as the green
eyeshades he affects in the law library. A particular course he receives at first ..."
3. The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School, 1817-1917 by Harvard Law School Association (1886- ) (1918)
""No doubt the student's ideas of the law are often as verdant as the green
eyeshades he affects in the law library. A particular course he receives at first ..."
4. A Survey of Industrial Health-hazards and Occupational Diseases in Ohio by Ohio State Board of Health, Emery Roe Hayhurst (1915)
"The wearing of eyeshades, occular corrections where necessary, light from the
side instead of the front, chairs with backs, and the interruption of ..."
5. The Photographic News edited by Sir William Crookes, G Wharton Simpson (1859)
"This was the reason why M. Hermagis was obliged to use high eyeshades to increase
the distance between the eyes and the pictures, and thus obtain a relief ..."
6. Our Acre and Its Harvest: Historical Sketch of the Soldiers' Aid Society of by Mary Clark Brayton, Ellen F. Terry (1869)
"3, addressed to the little girls, bespeaking their handiwork in making lint,
bandages and eyeshades. This was enthusiastically received, and every school ..."
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