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sidelight
[ sahyd-lahyt ]
sidelight
/ ˈsaɪdˌlaɪt /
noun
- light coming from the side
- a side window
- either of the two navigational running lights used by vessels at night, a red light on the port and a green on the starboard
- either of two small lights on the front of a motor vehicle, used to indicate the presence of the vehicle at night rather than to assist the driver
- additional or incidental information
Word History and Origins
Origin of sidelight1
Example Sentences
It’s also okay to have painted sidelights with a stained front door.
By painting the transom and sidelights a light color — matching them to the trim color of the house — it accentuates the pattern.
If your door is a stained wood and the sidelights are all stained wood, then that looks fine.
A sidelight to the historic effort was the marathon reporting conducted by Mudd.
A callous and utterly botched effort, but even if just a sidelight to this execution, it fits the execution like a favorite glove.
As a(nother) sidelight, it's clear that Romney or whoever wrote this piece doesn't actually understand what culture even is.
He tells me to carry on and, in doing so, throws an amusing sidelight upon himself.
Nothing was wrong but the loss of one sidelight, and the car went better than before.
An interesting sidelight on the affair was received a few days later.
Morgan had never been so interesting as now that he himself was made plainer by the sidelight of these confidences.
A glow-worm burned stilly, lighting up the whole leaf as a ship's sidelight lights up its painted box.
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