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Barndoor

noun
1.
An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas.



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... ab Hoste doceri." In the 7th Art. of the 31st No. of the Edinburgh Review (vol. xvi. Ap. 1810) the "Observations" of an Oxford Tutor are compared to "Children's Cradles" (page 181), then to a "Barndoor fowl flying" (page 182), then the man himself to "a Coach-horse on the Trottoir" (page 185) etc., etc., with a variety of other conundrums all tending to prove that the ingenuity of comparison increases in ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron


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