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plural noun

(in a theater or other auditorium) spotlights affixed to the ceiling of a stage setting, as distinguished from footlights, border lights, etc.

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Origin of beam lights

1520–30, for an earlier sense

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The latter went immediately to look for his wife, and found her hidden in an attic, hanging to a beam.
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