noun
- rooms kept dark for developing photographs
Usage: photography
Examples
- The photography students spent hours in the darkrooms developing their film.
- Many newspapers had their own darkrooms for processing photos quickly.
- Digital photography has made traditional darkrooms less common.
- She learned to develop black and white prints in the school’s darkrooms.
- The red light in darkrooms prevents exposure of photographic paper.
- Professional photographers often had elaborate darkrooms in their studios.