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softbox en · NOUN

Etymology

From soft + box.

Meanings

  1. A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.
    • Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light). 2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times:

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softboxes Number=Plur lexicographic