footlight

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From foot +‎ light.

Noun

footlight (plural footlights)

  1. A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
    • 1972, Harry Chapin, “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:
      You see, she was gonna be an actress / And I was gonna learn to fly / She took off to find the footlights / I took off to find the sky
    • 2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
      Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.

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