Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common burdock, Arctium Lappa. It is much cultivated in Japan for its root, which is there a popular garden vegetable.
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- noun film, television A
disc placed between alight and the illuminated object or actor in order todiffuse theglare .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Japansese, Burdock roots are called gobo and there are lots of simple rustic recipes for salads and soups using it. here are a few.
What's in CSA box #1 '09 kat 2009
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Burdock, in the Arctium genus, which includes greater burdock (A. lappa) and the smaller common burdock (A. minus) is also known as gobo or wild gobo, beggar's button, or wild rhubarb.
NYT > Home Page By AVA CHIN 2010
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M'gobo's face was all distorted like a man stricken with paralysis.
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903
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The root is the real delicacy of the plant though — called gobo and very popular in Japan, it’s considered the most yang of roots.
Reason for Not Eating Out in New York #10: Oh Foraging You May Go 2007
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Not only does the book feature some fifty hot pot recipes (many with photographs), it also devotes a large portion of it for profile of ingredients often used in hot pots, including some of winter vegetables that you may not be familiar with outside of Japan, such as gobo (burdock root) and mizuna greens.
she who eats chika 2010
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The space will be lit at night with the help of "gobo" lighting.
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If this is the preview of the General Elections, I can't wait for it to start. gobo
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If Democrats lose the election in November, they have no one to blame but themselves. gobo
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Why would we want another delusional president?? gobo
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And why anyone would choose a candidate based upon what that persons supporters are posting on a blog makes little sense to me. gobo
frindley commented on the word gobo
A theatrical lighting term: "a template or pattern cut into a circular plate used to create patterns of projected light. The name may be derived from go between, or from Goes Before Optics. Go between refers to its position between the lamp and the lens. Another origin may be: Graphical optical blackout."
But also (and this was something I didn't know): "a slang term used by sound recording engineers to refer to a movable acoustic isolation panel…an acoustics gobo is parallel in use to a photography gobo, which is used to block direct light sources, and also shares its name with the stage lighting gobo."
October 16, 2008