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Bokeh

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means the pleasing visual quality of out-of-focus areas in a photograph
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Stage 1 of 2
boke
Japanese · modern
"blur, haze"
literally blur or haze, describing the soft out-of-focus quality of a photograph
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Stage 2 of 2
bokeh
English · 1990s
"the aesthetic quality of blurred background light in a photo"
adopted by photographers to describe pleasing background blur
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