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Bengal light

noun

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

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Once or twice in the course of every Roman winter the Coliseum is illuminated with Bengal lights.

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Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; Ð called also blue light.

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He studied it from every point and in every light—at sunrise and sunset, and by moonlight, and even had Bengal lights hung at night to bring out new lights and shadows.

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And we had recitations besides, and singing, and Bengal lights, which the fairest of moons put to shame.

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Take these, they are Bengal lights—some of the fireworks that Tig bought in Red Butte for the Fourth.

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