Meanings
noundark room (plural dark rooms)
plural dark rooms
- alternativeartsAlternative form of darkroom.
There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.
1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150 - alternativelifestyleAlternative form of darkroom.
- obsoleteA camera obscura.
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