footlight

English

Alternative forms

• foot-light

Etymology

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.
   • 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.

Hypernyms

• light

Translations

stage light

• Bulgarian: рампа f (rampa)
• Finnish: parrasvalo (fi)
• French: feux de la rampe (fr) m pl
• Japanese: 足下 (ja) (ashimoto)
• Swedish: ramp (sv) c

Anagrams

• Lightfoot, lightfoot