damper

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vaimennin Something that damps or checks:
A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Something that kills the mood.
(rfdat) W. Black

Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.

The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

(..) an open wood fire, from the ashes of which he drew forth (talking all the while) wonderful hot cakes called "dampers" (..)