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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of darkroom1

First recorded in 1835–45; dark + room
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Example Sentences

"When I was about nine, 10, 11, I used to work in my father's darkroom," Duncan said.

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Chemical Unbalance uses the chemistry of the darkroom and the menopausal body as a way of exploring the changes occurring, without and within.

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He was photographer and developed film in a makeshift darkroom in a bedroom at home.

Although some photographers still use film, you need a darkroom to load the film into the developing cans.

We didn’t understand that in the right hands, the deep, deep blacks might speak to far more than a darkroom technique — to issues of race and segregation.

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