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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
footlights
noun
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▪ At the other end was a stage with footlights.
▪ From the other side of the footlights, Mulcahey could hear the murmuring beneath the noise of the music and the dancing.
▪ It had not come from the heart of the congregation, but from behind the footlights.
▪ Now all eyes were directed to the wide stage, bathed in spots and footlights.
▪ She could only see the first few rows beyond the footlights, but knowing they were there was enough.
▪ The answer was that I could play as long as I stayed the audience side of the footlights!
▪ The choreographer's problem is how to make subtle or vigorous gesture visible to those on the other side of the footlights.
▪ The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
footlights

"row of lights placed in front of a stage" (formerly called floats), 1836, from foot (n.) of the stage + light (n.).

Wiktionary
footlights

n. (plural of footlight English)

WordNet
footlights

n. theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors [syn: footlight]

Wikipedia
Footlights

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.

Footlights (1921 film)

Footlights is a 1921 American silent film romantic drama directed by John S. Robertson. It stars Elsie Ferguson and Reginald Denny in the lead characters. The film marked the only time star Ferguson and director Robertson worked together on a picture. This romantic adventure cannot be assessed today as it is presumably a lost film with no prints known to exist.

Usage examples of "footlights".

The two artists, being compelled to appear in the after-piece at their theatre that evening, had come to the dinner made up and in full stage costume, ready to appear behind the footlights at the summons of the call-boy.

The Back Wall with these French windows, is set only about ten feet from the footlights, and the rest of the stage is orchard.

At the far end of the room was an enormous stage, the drop curtain raised to reveal the gas footlights in green cabbage leaf sconces.

She eased back into the chair when Margo appeared before the footlights, the bodice of her silk dress revealing a good portion of her magnificent breasts, and the full gathered skirt giving her freedom of movement.

Tears streaming from his eyes, he pulled himself up over the footlights and onto the smooth surface of the stage.

Set low, shining upward, casting a warm and gentle light, the footlights soften the jawline, enhance the forehead, make mysterious the eyes and merry the mouth.

They also fitted together the curb sections to make the pista, and spread straw inside it, and outside it ranged the carbide-fired footlights and spotlights.

I will quench the footlights, so the pista will be dark when Boom-Boom swings into the anthem for the come-in.

Goesle closed his gas valve to dim and kill the footlights, and the tober went totally dark.

It fell slowly, drifting back and forth, twirling and dipping out of the spotlight into dimness, then brightening again when the footlights caught it, and finally settling gently onto the pista.

It was this youth who now stepped down to the darkened footlights and spoke in a remorseful and conscience-stricken manner.

The assistant stage-director bent sedulously over the footlights, which had now been turned up, shading his eyes with the prompt script.

Accompanied by a great, brassy fanfare from the orchestra, each woman posed by the footlights in her rustling Paris finery before moving offstage.

I spared an instant to hope fervently that one or both of her five-thousand-dollar investments were deflating at that very moment, and blinked over the bright footlights that lined the stage.

I squinted past the footlights to the smoky and inadequately lit room, my anger at Van Ryder dissipating into stunned disbelief as I took in the scene.