footlight
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Origin of footlight
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Contemporary Examples
DS: Yes, and at Cambridge [University] I performed standup with the [well-known Cambridge amateur theatrical group] Footlights.
Dan Stevens Blows Up ‘Downton’: From Chubby-Cheeked Aristo to Lean, Mean American PsychoTim Teeman
September 19, 2014
Katie Holmes may often have seemed like a doe in the footlights during her marriage to Tom Cruise.
But that was the feeling you got from him, on either side of the footlights.
Historical Examples
But when the footlights are on and the limes are lit, you'd be surprised to see how fine it looks.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
Instead of screening him I had dragged him in front of the footlights.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
Bton in hand, he was bowing from his place before the footlights.
The ChristianHall Caine
He noticed it and became abashed—he, the hero of a hundred footlights.
MelomaniacsJames Huneker
His face was in the sideway glare of the footlights which illumined the orchestra.
An Old MeerschaumDavid Christie Murray
footlights
- lights set in a row along the front of the stage floor and shielded on the audience side
- informal the acting profession; the stage
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Word Origin and History for footlights
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