footlight
nounEtymology From foot + light.
1
A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
- 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 sky1972, Harry Chapin, “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:
- Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:
- Derived terms
- footlighted
- Hypernyms
- light