Bengal light

British  

noun

1. a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal

---

Example Sentences

The cavern with a Bengal light was fairyland to him, and among the minerals he was quite at home.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

The foot of the infuriate beast was raised to crush his skull, when another man flashed a Bengal light in his face, with the flame almost in his eyes, and the giant bellowed and fled.

From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Optic, Oliver

But to choose a partner for life in the glare of a Bengal light!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

In the window of the apothecary a great purple jar, with a spray of gas jets behind it, was flaring on the darkness like a Bengal light.

From The Stillwater Tragedy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Denis did not dance, but when ragtime came squirting out of the pianola in gushes of treacle and hot perfume, in jets of Bengal light, then things began to dance inside him.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous