abat-jour , auch: abatjour , auch: abajour

Circuitous though it seemed, removing panes from the abat-jour might actually be a more prudent approach.

Tall free-standing lamps allude to the restaurant's name, from the French for lampshade (abat-jour).

The new name, a mis-spelled but easily pronounced version of the French word abat-jour, meaning lampshade, refers to one strong element in the decor.

Outside of her adult career, she had a leading role in the erotic film Abat-Jour, which was directed by Lorenzo Onorati.

Regretfully Silk let down the movable section of the abat-jour, retrieved his horsehair rope, and untied the rough limb that had served him so well.

Thus the previously invariable après-midi (afternoon) and abat-jour (lampshade) become après-midis and abat-jours in the plural.

Elle alla dinguer contre le mur, son abat-jour d'un beige dlicat s'y crasa et l'ampoule clata.

The success of Wright's "Abat-jour", which was perceived as a local cover version of Clark's "Romeo" prompted the decision to have Clark herself cut songs for the Italian market.

She made her film debut in 1987, in Abat-jour, a soft-core film directed by Lorenzo Onorati and i which she was the main actress alongside Aldo Sambrell and Baby Pozzi.

The 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter featured Loren and Mastroianni in what was in effect a remake of the strip tease scene from Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow with Wright's "Abat-jour" again played as background music.

Henry Wright's version of "Abat-jour" is prominently featured in the 1963 film Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Sophia Loren, playing the prostitute Mara, plays Wright's record as the background music for the strip tease she performs for a client played by Marcello Mastroianni.

The lynx emerged from the abatjour and trotted over to stand beneath the window, looking up at them quizzically.

A section of abatjour pivoted upward, and a horned head with topaz eyes emerged from beneath it, followed by a big, soft-looking paw.

It was level or nearly so, a featureless dark surface surrounding an abatjour for the illumination of the conservatory, itself enclosed on three sides by chest-high battlements.

Although it was twenty times larger, this roof had no abatjour, and was in fact no more than a broad and extremely long expanse of slightly sloping tar.

Leaving his limb and horsehair rope where they lay, he walked gingerly across the roof to the abatjour and crouched to peer through one of its scores of clear panes.

Together with his fellow designer Anghini Giovanni Alessi, he designed the Lumière, Flame, Abatjour, and DR, which have been adopted in the Foreverlamp range.

Shine is the first EP released by Brazilian singer Daniel Peixoto and was released on June, 2011, by French label AbatJour Records.

Other Chiodaroli's characters include the Celtic demigod "Tempesta Ormonale" (appeared in the Rai 2 prime time show Bulldozer), the surreal "Magician Abatjour", the former fashion model Ornello, the jazz trumpeter Brian.

In 2011, Daniel Peixoto goes in a solo career, Mastigando Humanos debut album was released in that year, along with the EP Shine, launched in Europe, while touring, by French-Brazilian label AbatJour Records.

But at Abajour, they were getting a warm reception and better than decent food.

Abajour seems to have struck a chord.

BAJ has been publishing a professional magazine "Abajour" since 2000.

Abajour comes as welcome news.

The menu has enough smart little twists to lift Abajour above the standardized steak frites competition.

A neighborhood bistro with pleasing décor, attractive menu and well-priced wines, Abajour has a bright summery look.

Abajour does not make a big fuss about this steak, but it's one of the juiciest, most flavorful pieces of meat I've come across in months.

At Abajour, where the prix fixe menu has been dropped to $19.95 from $25, gulf shrimp have been replaced with less expensive popcorn shrimp.

Jonathan Crean at Abajour makes a one-bordelaise-fits-all from a very basic streamlined recipe, eliminating the marrow and going for the gutsy flavor.

Abajour began Monday Menu Roulette, placing a menu without prices into the stack and giving the diner who receives it a free dinner.

A name like Abajour more readily suggests a French-accented American bistro menu than the previous choice, Tony Macgregor's, for the restaurant at 1134 First Avenue (62nd Street).

New York chefs are using lavender in some traditional ways, in creamy desserts like the lavender panna cotta at Abajour on the Upper East Side and the carmeline, a kind of pastry cream, scented with lavender at Cello, on East 77th Street.