English

flashbar

From flash + bar.

A compound of flash + bar

Middle English flasshen ‘to splash’

English flash

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barre ‘beam, bar, gate, barrier’

Middle English barre

English bar

Today it means

noun A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flashbar