lighting-up time

British  

noun

1. the time when vehicles are required by law to have their lights switched on

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Example Sentences

After our late luncheon we ran back from Hitchin to London, but, not arriving before lighting-up time, we had to turn on the head-lights beyond Barnet.

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William

When the tyre was mended, something went wrong with the electric ignition, and altogether the repairs proved such a tedious job that they could not make a fresh start until close upon lighting-up time.

From The Motor Pirate by Paternoster, G. Sidney

When lighting-up time came it was naturally tired, and wanted a rest.”

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

It set me thinking of all the other things that could happen to a man out and about on a velocipede without a lamp after lighting-up time.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

And almost by lighting-up time they were shoulder to shoulder on the road once more.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William