gobo

noun

go·​bo ˈgō-(ˌ)bō 

plural gobos also goboes

1

: a dark strip (as of wallboard) to shield a movie or television camera from light

2

: a device to shield a microphone from sound

Examples of gobo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And like those, there's these gobo shots with my projections of artwork. — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026

Stéphane expertly managed to create this sense of restriction by only allowing slithers of natural light through the closed shutters on the windows, creating a cage-like gobo. — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025

At the least, an engineer would separate them with gobos—jargon for movable acoustic panels that go between. — Cameron Carr, Longreads, 18 June 2024

Word History

Etymology

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First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1