calcium light
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calcium light
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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It was like a mammoth, well-cut cameo, or a gigantic magic lantern effect, with the sun as a calcium light.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
The scene he saw was the one he had put behind him, and in the calcium light of his mind, one figure stood out clearly from the rest.
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
"Why, you wouldn't be brilliant in a calcium light."
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus
The Moon, in fact, is in German novels what the calcium light is in American melodrama.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
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