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darkroom

[ dahrk-room, -room ]

noun

, Photography.
  1. a room in which film or the like is made, handled, or developed and from which the actinic rays of light are excluded.


darkroom

/ ˈdɑːkˌruːm; -ˌrʊm /

noun

  1. a room in which photographs are processed in darkness or safe light


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Word History and Origins

Origin of darkroom1

First recorded in 1835–45; dark + room

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Example Sentences

Some apps, like Darkroom, are already optimized for the files.

At least in the photographic darkroom, the first time you go in, the lights are on.

We begin small and dark: a long, black-painted darkroom, bestrewn with tiny, black-framed pictures.

Because all of the Rescued Film Project images are scanned to digital, the necessity of a darkroom is null.

In this episode of 'Darkroom,' we dive into a stark picture of the ensuing violence.

Her parents became more and more complex, like figures in a photograph slowly emerging in a darkroom developing tray.

An amateur photographer insists that a timing clock in the darkroom is a needless luxury.

The only subdivisions inside were a small vestibule, a photographic darkroom and my own room.

Then, I lit my darkroom lamp, and withdrew the slide, so that it would give a clear light.

This I rightly conjectured to be the photographic darkroom, and made for it at once.

The tent was lined with red, evidently Kermit's darkroom when he was developing pictures.

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