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"sense": "screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"sense": "template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light",
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"sense": "template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"sense": "template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light",
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"sense": "template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light",
"word": "gobo"
},
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"masculine"
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}
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"ref": "1988, Brant S. Rogers, Culinary Botany: The Essential Handbook",
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"type": "quotation"
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],
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[
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"General-American"
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},
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"tags": [
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