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Definition of Footlights
1. Noun. Theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors.
Generic synonyms: Theater Light
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Definition of Footlights
1. Noun. (plural of footlight) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footlights
1. footlight [n] - See also: footlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footlights
Literary usage of Footlights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The Moral Aspects of Life Behind the Scenes and Before the footlights. ...
The moral aspects of life behind the scenes and before the footlights have often ..."
2. Dean Swift by Sophie Shilleto Smith (1910)
"CHAPTER III IN THE BLAZE OF THE footlights THERE is nothing more dazzling, nothing
which more completely shuts off outer existence, than the glare of the ..."
3. Folio (1882)
"... The maiden stood in the footlights' glare, RU»KW your subscription now, if U
expires with the December issue. Do not wait until it is too late to secure ..."
4. High School Buildings by William Conrad Bruce (1919)
"footlights are installed in a gutter across the ture are given, or other
demonstrations are made. In addition to the stereopticon, the motion picture is ..."
5. Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences by Oscar Tully Shuck (1889)
"... O'Conor and Joseph H. Choate of New York—Association With Eugene Casserly in
San Francisco—Selling The Mercantile Library—Before The footlights—Writes A ..."
6. How Women May Earn a Living by Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee (1900)
"CHAPTER III footlights THERE is one class of people who shrink with aversion from
the thought of earning a living on the stage, and another who look upon it ..."
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