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To: Red Badger

I’ve never heard of a photograph called a “flashlight”, but I know they call a flashlight a torch.


2 posted on 04/16/2018 10:59:38 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Dictionary
flash·light

noun
noun: flashlight; plural noun: flashlights

1.
North American
a battery-operated portable light.
2.
a flashing light used for signals and in lighthouses.
3.
a light giving an intense flash, used for photographing at night or indoors.


4 posted on 04/16/2018 11:01:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: rdl6989

Probably a flash bulb. They would have been new-ish then.


5 posted on 04/16/2018 11:02:11 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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