Holophane

[ hol-uh-feyn, hoh-luh- ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of glass having a surface pattern of small, lenslike areas for even diffusion of light.

Example Sentences

If you’re an interior designer obsessed with art, architecture, preservation and the history of decorative arts — and you know your way around 1930s window mullions and vintage Holophane pendant lights — it might be kind of hard to find your own dream house.

From Los Angeles Times

The Antitrust Department started the case by hauling Holophane into an Ohio District Court.

From Time Magazine Archive

It charged that contracts between Holophane and a British and French firm, granting each other exclusive markets for their products, were "designed to eliminate competition."

From Time Magazine Archive

It ordered Holophane to use "reasonable" efforts to sell its products abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.

From Project Gutenberg