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footlights

footlights is the plural of footlight.

Meaning of footlight

Noun

footlight (plural footlights)

  1. A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
    • You see, she was gonna be an actress / And I was gonna learn to fly / She took off to find the footlights / I took off to find the sky1972, Harry Chapin, “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales

Questions about footlights

What is footlights the plural of?
Footlights is the plural of footlight.

Words near footlights in the dictionary

  1. footlickers
  2. footlicking
  3. Footlicks
  4. footlight
  5. footlighted
  6. footlights
  7. footlike
  8. footling
  9. footling about
  10. footling around
  11. footling away

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