What is "houselights"

Usage examples of "houselights".

This time Kerry took the acorn, and they continued the improvisation, developing it into a story with a squirrel for a villain, until the custodian switched off the houselights from backstage and they both shouted in indignation.

As SOON As THE houselights were up full for intermission, Jan dashed to the costume room under the stage and rummaged along the racks till she found a simple long gray dress.

A pronounced hush settled over the apartment, a conscious, collective stillness such as one experiences in a theatre, just as the houselights dim and the curtain goes up.

In the hinterlands, where the farms were miles apart and the houselights went out early, you could look up on almost any clear night and see all the stars you wanted.

In commotion, voicing their displeasure, the last stragglers entered the room in a cloud of ambiguous smoke, the heavy jade-inlaid doors swung shut and were locked, the houselights were dimmed, the music track segued to romantic disco, the comic took the mike, and the auction was on.

This street paralleled Main, though it was narrower and darker, a quiet residential neighborhood with no houselights showing.

The houselights came up and Hawkins idly observed that the crowd was highly enthused about the hit musical.

I walked to the front door and was actually glad that all the shimmering houselights were turned on bright.

At suppertime, the neighborhood began to stir with life, people coming home from work, houselights coming on.

The light was murky grey again, pinpricked by houselights and street lamps.

Pendergast said nothing, merely inclining his head slightly as the houselights came up and the intermission began.

Just before the houselights went down, sweeping the house from the cheap seats, Barney found them, the platinum blond lady and her escort.