headground
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Blend of head + background .
Noun
[edit ]headground (plural headgrounds )
- (photography , dated ) A background used for a headshot.
- 1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783[1] , page 567:
- One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.
- 1927, American Photography - Volume 21[2] , page 12:
- But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.