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n. 1 (context uncountable English) Light that causes shadows to be cast across an object of view. 2 (context countable English) A traffic light intended principally to allow pedestrian or other traffic from a lesser roadway to cross a busier roadway. 3 (rfdef lang=en other lighting definitions)
Usage examples of "crosslight".
She picked one up to examine it in the crosslight of moon and lantern.
There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all,--the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.
On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
Apart from this, the place was empty as a blown egg, the stone-flagged floor swept clean by the weather, and the clustered domes full of crosslights and shadows, where the ghost of a Christos Pantokrator stared down from a single eye.
The anger seemed to drop from him, and his face looked strained all at once, the dark sunburn looking almost sickly in the queer crosslights of the church.