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Very lights

[ver-ee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

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1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor

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Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!

As he spoke, three green Very lights came from the cockpit of the plane.

After the manœuvres the Gamma flew by night over Cambridge and bombarded that seat of learning with Very lights.

Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.

No lights could be shown, they did not even dare use "Very lights," as our "star-lights" are known.

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