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n. 1 The doors of a barn. 2 ''(filmmaking jargon)'' Four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights. They are used for shaping light and fastening light gels.
Usage examples of "barn doors".
But maybe Larry had never heard of this, or maybe the rule applied only to barn doors.
He headed for the open barn doors, wincing at the unusual complaint of his body at the sudden movement after standing too long, and the sudden realization that neither Ohio nor world travel had been kind to his permanently damaged body.
Andrew heard her throwing open her barn doors, chasing the horses out into the pasture and away from the impending disaster.
When Matthias sensed they needed feeding he would buy a few head of dairy cattle and shoo them through the barn doors.
I unlocked the barn doors and reached inside, my fingers on the light switch.
Then he opened the big barn doors, and the flood of light revealed the small girl trudging down an aisle between the crates, clutching a kitten, its four legs protruding awkwardly like a scarecrow.
On Cadderly's command, Ivan and Pikel each took hold of one of the barn doors and pulled it wide.
The gunman hauled open the barn doors and drove out the big Volvo sedan that had been parked there only since midnight.
Anyway, they were busy remembering `the good old days' the way old coots usually do, and somehow the question of barn doors came up.
Donna shifted into neutral and let what was left of the Pinto's forward motion carry them toward the big barn doors, which stood half open on their tracks.