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marsh lights

marsh lights is the plural of marsh light.

Meaning of marsh light

Noun

marsh light (plural marsh lights)

  1. A will o' the wisp.
  2. (figuratively) A delusion, a false hope.
    • "Thus, even thus, have I lived for full two thousand years - for some six and sixty generations, as ye reckon time - in a Hell, as thou callest it - tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire - without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about marsh lights

What is marsh lights the plural of?
Marsh lights is the plural of marsh light.

Words near marsh lights in the dictionary

  1. marsh horsetail
  2. marsh horsetails
  3. marsh Labrador tea
  4. Marsh Lake
  5. marsh light
  6. marsh lights
  7. marsh lynx
  8. marsh lynxes
  9. marsh mallow
  10. marsh mallows
  11. marsh marigold

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