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calcium light

American  

noun

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


calcium light British  

noun

  1. another name for limelight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of calcium light

First recorded in 1860–65

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While I was looking down on the performers I noticed a flash of light where the electric wires connect with the calcium light.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

The pitiless sunshine seemed to single him out and stream upon him like a calcium light.

From The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Their convenient emission of calcium light, however, makes it possible to photograph them in all positions, and emphasises their close relationship to prominences.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

Far better bring them near and turn on the calcium light.

From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Only practice torpedoes send up a calcium light when their compressed air has given out.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson

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