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Belisha (disambiguation)

Belisha may refer to:

  • Leslie Hore-Belisha, a past UK Liberal Party politician
  • Belisha beacon, named after him

Usage examples of "belisha".

As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.

The fog appeared less menacing on the main road than it had in the unlit graveyard, though the high amber street-lights and the flashing Belisha beacons at the zebra crossing looked like the Martian machines out of War of the Worlds.

The Government spends our tax money putting up Belisha beacons and painting telephone boxes the colour of blood, but do they put a penny into things that really matter?

Her face lit up like a Belisha beacon and she began buzzing around him like a particularly chatty bee.

I may call the Belisha period ended we were left with some 250 armoured vehicles, very few of which carried even a two-pounder gun.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.