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Camera obscura   Listen
Camera obscura

noun
1.
A darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.





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"Camera obscura" Quotes from Famous Books



... first time. A gang of stone masons went past him on the pavement, and all of them were reflected in his inner vision with an exaggerated vividness and brilliance of colour, just as though on the frosted glass of a camera obscura. The foreman, with a red beard, matted to one side, and with blue austere eyes; and a tremendous young fellow, whose left eye was swollen, and who had a spot of a dark-blue colour spreading from the forehead to the cheekbone and from the nose to the ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin


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