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footlights

US // (ˈfʊtˌlaɪts) //

脚灯,足灯,脚踏车,脚步声

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Definitions

  1. 1

    theatre

    • : lights set in a row along the front of the stage floor and shielded on the audience side
    • : informal the acting profession; the stage

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Examples

  • DS: Yes, and at Cambridge [University] I performed standup with the [well-known Cambridge amateur theatrical group] Footlights.

  • Katie Holmes may often have seemed like a doe in the footlights during her marriage to Tom Cruise.

  • But that was the feeling you got from him, on either side of the footlights.

  • We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.

  • It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.

  • Already a stage-hand was turning up the footlights and dragging chairs and tables hither and thither.

  • They came close to the footlights and placed huge piles of stage money side by side.

  • In front are the footlights, a row of earthenware bowls filled with oil, with a lighted wick floating in each one.