Word of the Day: Bokeh

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noun 1. The visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens.
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Japanese, 1990s
Why This Word?
The word "bokeh" should be familiar to photographers as the blurred or out-of-focus areas of an image, but it only entered English in the 1990s. It comes from the Japanese word "boke," a shortened form of "pinboke," meaning "state of being out of focus," which came from "bokeru," meaning "become befuddled." ...
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