Bengal lights
Bengal lights is the plural of Bengal light.
Meaning of Bengal light
Noun
Bengal light (plural Bengal lights)
- A bright blue flare prepared from niter, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.
- I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which the glow of a Bengal light or a searchlight beam will cut out and illuminate in a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness1922, Marcel Proust, “Overture”, in C[harles] K[enneth] Scott Moncrieff, transl., Remembrance of Things Past: Part One: Swann’s Way, volume I, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 40
- Synonyms:
- Bengal fire, bengola, blue light
Questions about Bengal lights
- What is Bengal lights the plural of?
- Bengal lights is the plural of Bengal light.
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