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footlights

/ ˈfʊtˌlaɪts /

plural noun

lights set in a row along the front of the stage floor and shielded on the audience side
informal.
the acting profession; the stage

DS: Yes, and at Cambridge [University] I performed standup with the [well-known Cambridge amateur theatrical group] Footlights.

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.

We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.

It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.

Already a stage-hand was turning up the footlights and dragging chairs and tables hither and thither.

They came close to the footlights and placed huge piles of stage money side by side.

In front are the footlights, a row of earthenware bowls filled with oil, with a lighted wick floating in each one.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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