sidelight
an item of incidental information.
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How to use sidelight in a sentence
It’s also okay to have painted sidelights with a stained front door.
Curb appeal: How to pick the right color and style for your front door | Marissa Hermanson | October 7, 2021 | Washington PostBy painting the transom and sidelights a light color — matching them to the trim color of the house — it accentuates the pattern.
Curb appeal: How to pick the right color and style for your front door | Marissa Hermanson | October 7, 2021 | Washington PostIf your door is a stained wood and the sidelights are all stained wood, then that looks fine.
Curb appeal: How to pick the right color and style for your front door | Marissa Hermanson | October 7, 2021 | Washington PostA sidelight to the historic effort was the marathon reporting conducted by Mudd.
The media will be key to overcoming a Senate filibuster on voting rights | Donald Ritchie | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostA 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.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonNothing was wrong but the loss of one sidelight, and the car went better than before.
Our Part in the Great War | Arthur GleasonAn interesting sidelight on the affair was received a few days later.
Camps and Trails in China | Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup AndrewsMorgan had never been so interesting as now that he himself was made plainer by the sidelight of these confidences.
The Pupil | Henry JamesA glow-worm burned stilly, lighting up the whole leaf as a ship's sidelight lights up its painted box.
The Tower of Oblivion | Oliver Onions
British Dictionary definitions for sidelight
/ (ˈsaɪdˌlaɪt) /
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
British 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
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