Very lights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Very lights
1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor
Example Sentences
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
After the manœuvres the Gamma flew by night over Cambridge and bombarded that seat of learning with Very lights.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Anyhow for quite a spell afterwards they were very "windy" and would send up the "Very" lights on the slightest provocation and start the "typewriters" a-rattling.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
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