softbox means A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
Etymology
From soft + box.
noun
- A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.“Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).”