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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical, same as lightroom, 1.

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Examples

  • Further, the classes are taught in an inspiring, light-filled studio refashioned from an old Barn where the angled ceiling, exposed beams and Asian light-box lanterns allow for, again, an easy, zen-like experience.

    Meg Nolan: A Quick Valentine's Getaway 40 Minutes From Manhattan Meg Nolan 2011

  • Further, the classes are taught in an inspiring, light-filled studio refashioned from an old Barn where the angled ceiling, exposed beams and Asian light-box lanterns allow for, again, an easy, zen-like experience.

    Meg Nolan: A Quick Valentine's Getaway 40 Minutes From Manhattan Meg Nolan 2011

  • One of his most spectacular light-box photographs is inspired by the opening pages of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and shows a black man sitting in a room under dozens of light bulbs—a shot Mr. Wall says he had to work at doggedly until at last he got the bulbs to look right.

    Jeff Wall's 'Crooked Path' Brigid Grauman 2011

  • Some of this is because of Mr. Wheeler's perfectionism and his exasperation with gallery owners who wanted him to keep cranking out the softly glowing light-box "paintings" that initially got him attention in the 1960s.

    Shock, Light Therapy With Life Thrown In Peter Plagens 2012

  • Further, the classes are taught in an inspiring, light-filled studio refashioned from an old Barn where the angled ceiling, exposed beams and Asian light-box lanterns allow for, again, an easy, zen-like experience.

    Meg Nolan: A Quick Valentine's Getaway 40 Minutes From Manhattan Meg Nolan 2011

  • The first room shows light-box images inspired by the 19th-century art he admires, like the studio shot of an upturned room that was loosely inspired by Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapalus" 1827.

    Jeff Wall's 'Crooked Path' Brigid Grauman 2011

  • Further, the classes are taught in an inspiring, light-filled studio refashioned from an old Barn where the angled ceiling, exposed beams and Asian light-box lanterns allow for, again, an easy, zen-like experience.

    Meg Nolan: A Quick Valentine's Getaway 40 Minutes From Manhattan Meg Nolan 2011

  • We just bought a light-box setup; it's a collapsible box of white rip-stop fabric, with interchangeable backdrops in red, blue, and black, and lighting standards for each side.

    Making Light: Pretty rocks 2010

  • Among the prizes here are a reassembled staircase and a re-creation of the Robinson House dining room of 1905, containing the original furniture and a spectacular hanging mosaic-glass "cherry tree" light-box.

    Greene & Greene's Best: 2009

  • Still, Jamal afforded him a hearty chuckle as he dragged the heavy light-box from the elevator.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

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