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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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"Barndoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... he is holding the pen "for my Lord Bolingbroke," who is reading your letter between two haycocks, with his attention occasionally distracted by a threatening shower. Bolingbroke is acting the temperate recluse, having nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl. Whilst his lordship is running after a cart, Pope snatches a moment to tell how the day before this noble farmer had engaged a painter for 200l. to give the correct agricultural air to his country hall by ornamenting it with trophies of spades, rakes, and prongs. Pope saw that the ...
— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen


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