Very lights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Very lights
1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
One could distinguish flights of illuminated tracer bullets, and now and again what he took to be Very lights exposed the countryside.
From Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
As he spoke, three green Very lights came from the cockpit of the plane.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Harry Bates
As we swung out along the once good but now badly furrowed French road, we could see the Very lights beginning to go up far off to the left, showing where the lines were.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
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