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Formerly used for stage lighting
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limelight
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
'''Limelight ''' (also known as Drummond light or calcium light ) is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls . An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quicklime ( calcium oxide ), ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, popular name for Drummond light , a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime (n.1); adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of "on stage, at the center ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
limelight \lime"light`\, n. (Theat.) That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore ...
Usage examples of limelight.
He fainted, and Indica found itself launched into the limelight by actually having a show of the Biennale winner mounted at the time.
Was it that Cece loved the limelight or did she just rub arrogant bitches the wrong way?
Lonna had been counting on her son to keep the Leep family in the limelight, which is the last place he wanted to be.
The night was not warm, with the breeze coming off the gulf, but Pavlo sweated oilily in the limelight, and fumbled his commands to the dogs and the albino children and his wife, and kept glancing up at the sky, which had begun ruddily to lighten in the east.
Considering the unknown outcomes of the research, this was a far more acceptable resolution to a questionable procedure than a one-time payout, which would have brought both Symbio and its government affiliations into the limelight.
So the wagons in which people no longer had to ride to sleep were stocked full of hay and grain for the horses and elephant, smoked meats for the lion, staple groceries for the humans, canisters of calcium carbide for the limelights, coils of rope, cans of paint and tar and coal oil and axle grease, harness and horseshoes and miscellaneous hardware, fabrics and thread and sequins for the wardrobe.
It gained Fritz Leiber a Hugo as the best science-fiction novel of 1958 and catapulted him right back into the limelight, but then he decided that satire was being overdone and he would try farce.
They found themselves organizing, propagandizing, podium- pounding, persuading, touring, negotiating, posing for publicity photos, submitting to interviews, squinting in the limelight as they tried a tentative, but growingly sophisticated, buck-and-wing upon the public stage.
Stephen did not like the advent of another sister, for it took some of the limelight away from his ironbound leg.
Sohegan was Brigadoon, settling back to sleep after a few glorious hours in the limelight.
So the wagons in which people no longer had to ride to sleep were stocked full of hay and grain for the horses and elephant, smoked meats for the lion, staple groceries for the humans, canisters of calcium carbide for the limelights, coils of rope, cans of paint and tar and coal oil and axle grease, harness and horseshoes and miscellaneous hardware, fabrics and thread and sequins for the wardrobe.
The limelights in the old theaters used a hydrogen flame under a ball of lime, calcium oxide.
He'd have the limelight back in a heartbeat -- all that glory, all that love -- and they'd be back on the casting couch in a week with their fannies in the air.
Having already tested his story on the Cheboygan Resident, Cadillac had added more colour and drama to the weaker passages and was only too happy to step into the limelight with some spell-binding of his own.
The presence of Lady Wetherby acted as a temporary check on the development of the situation, but after they had been seated at their table a short time the lights of the restaurant were suddenly lowered, a coloured limelight became manifest near the roof, and classical music made itself heard from the fiddles in the orchestra.