Citations:lampshading

Noun: "the practice of decorating lampshades"

 * 1975 — Vernonica McNiff, "Secret Sources: The Craftsmen", New York, 28 April 1975:
 * has been the doyenne of lampshading for 30 years. She makes up designs in all categories, and her own custom lamps of Lucite and wood.
 * 1979 — Maria Hileman, "Colonial craft revived", The Day, 17 March 1979:
 * "Most people think lampshading is decorating the outside of a lampshade, and that doesn't sound very appealing," says Mrs. Mihok.
 * In fact, lampshading is a unique style of paper-cutting that was immensely popular in England and Germany during the 17th century.
 * 1993 — Audur H. Winnan, Wanda Gág: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, Smithsonian Institution Press (1993), ISBN 9781560982210, page 8:
 * Finally she took a job decorating lampshades. Lampshading, as she called it, left her drained and without impetus or inspiration to draw, which always made her unhappy.