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Example sentences from the Web for footlightsDS: Yes, and at Cambridge [University] I performed standup with the [well-known Cambridge amateur theatrical group] Footlights. Dan Stevens Blows Up ‘Downton’: From Chubby-Cheeked Aristo to Lean, Mean American Psycho|Tim Teeman|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Katie Holmes may often have seemed like a doe in the footlights during her marriage to Tom Cruise. Why Katie Holmes May Win Custody|Nancy Hass|July 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST But that was the feeling you got from him, on either side of the footlights. Doc Watson, a Legendary Picker, Was Traditional Music’s Best Ambassador|Malcolm Jones|May 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST I honestly feared that I might prove the superfluous veteran who has no business behind the footlights. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes|E. E. Brown
There were over a dozen children before the footlights, with the prima donna in the centre. Van Bibber and Others|Richard Harding Davis A bell rang faintly from behind the wings, the house lights sank, and the footlights blazed up. Vandover and the Brute|Frank Norris Where the stage is lit with gaslights it is important to provide a separate downward ventilation for the footlights. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899|Various The footlights were hidden behind a screen of foliage and flowering shrubs. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16|Various
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pl n theatrelights set in a row along the front of the stage floor and shielded on the audience side informal the acting profession; the stage Words nearby footlightsfootle, footless, footlet, foot level, footlight, footlights, foot line, footling, footling presentation, footlocker, footlong Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to footlightsshow biz, arena, set, theater, scene, spotlight, opera house, room, theatre, cinema, movie, site, amphitheater, drama, house, hall, auditorium, playhouse, movie house, troupe |