gobo
Americannoun
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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a screen or sheet of sound-absorbent material for shielding a microphone from sounds coming from a particular direction.
noun
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a shield placed around a microphone to exclude unwanted sounds
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a black screen placed around a camera lens, television lens, etc, to reduce the incident light
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gobo
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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“We put Gobo into this beautiful setting that we all visit when we are taking days off from shooting the show in Calgary,” Fusfeld says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Lego: Horizon Adventures, based on the PlayStation series and largely developed by London-based Studio Gobo, is nominated in four categories.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
The main Fraggles are back in the welcome reboot, characters like Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober and Red.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022
A vegan for more than 25 years, Moby previously owned Gobo, two now-closed vegan restaurants in New York City.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2015
We were compelled also to kill several of our stock of chickens for food, Mammy Gobo having especially prescribed chicken-broth when we became somewhat convalescent.
From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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