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Definition of Torchlight
1. Noun. Light from a torch or torches.
Definition of Torchlight
1. n. The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
Definition of Torchlight
1. Noun. The dim light produced by a torch. ¹
2. Noun. (British) : The dim light produced by a flashlight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torchlight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torchlight
Literary usage of Torchlight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Platform: Its Rise and Progress by Henry Lorenzo Jephson (1891)
"On the same night a torchlight meeting was held at Bury, in defiance of a notice
... Meetings of the character of these torchlight gatherings were plainly ..."
2. History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an by Harriet Martineau, George Lillie Craik, Charles Knight (1866)
"... in the month of November, torchlight the torchlight meetings became formidable
... of the illegality of torchlight meetings of the kind then in fashion, ..."
3. The Basin and Greybull Oil and Gas Field, Bighorn County, Wyoming by Ferdinand Friis Hintz (1915)
"On the southwest side of the torchlight dome the Peay sandstone descends to sea
level, ... THE LAMB ANTICLINE North of the torchlight dome is a smaller dome ..."
4. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1905)
"West of Levisa Fork, opposite torchlight Station (Three-mile Creek), a splint
coal is opened at the mouth of Stratton Branch, 175 feet above the river bed, ..."
5. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville, Henry Reeve (1883)
"... Function — The Jesuits — Saint-making— San Lorenzo in Lucina— The Flagellants—
Statues by torchlight — Bunsen on the State of Rome — Frascati— Relations ..."
6. The Century by Bim Sherman (1885)
"SNOW-SHOEING BY torchlight. lounge about the room, and take their turn in the
impromptu frolic of the evening. " A song ! " calls some one. ..."
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