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Used in photography to cut off light from particular areas
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barndoor
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Word definitions for barndoor in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The large door of a barn
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
barndoor \barndoor\ n. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas.
Usage examples of barndoor.
He'll get a good day's sport--no barndoor birds" (for he encouraged his pheasants to remain lean, that they might fly the better), "but don't let him expect one of these battues--sheer butchery, I call them.
The barndoor cock, when we left him on board the steamer going to New York, had not yet learned the nature of his own requirements.