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語源

From foot +‎ light.

名詞

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 section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

     Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.

上位語

• light

派生語

アナグラム

• Lightfoot, lightfoot