calcium light

American  

noun

1. a brilliant white light produced by heating lime to incandescence in an oxyhydrogen or other hot flame; limelight.

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calcium light British  

noun

1. another name for limelight

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Etymology

Origin of calcium light

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

We see him alongside Tilden, touring the construction site of the Brooklyn Bridge, where “shadows cast by the calcium lights seemed to lend a supernatural depth to the thin sound of drills and chains.”

From New York Times

I was in a position to see the origin of the fire plainly, and I feel positive that it was an electric calcium light that started the fire.

From Project Gutenberg

If we interpose the intense calcium light or an electric arc light between the eye and the sun, these artificial sources will look like black spots on the disk.

From Project Gutenberg

His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light.

From Project Gutenberg

The Moon, in fact, is in German novels what the calcium light is in American melodrama.

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