Definitions for footlight

footlight foot·light

Spelling: [foo t-lahyt]
IPA: /ˈfʊtˌlaɪt/

Footlight is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in footlight (fghiloott).

Definitions for footlight

noun

  1. Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
  2. the footlights, the stage; acting profession.

Origin of footlight

First recorded in 1830-40; foot + light1

Examples for footlight

Simultaneous-like, he became conscious of the fact that the footlight Favorites were no longer worthy of him.

No living creature excites such general curiosity, interest, and perhaps admiration and envy, as this footlight queen.

Jefferson had really fallen asleep, and his snores, it is said, were quite audible beyond the footlight.

They are nothing but footlight beauties: they look ghastly off the boards.

A footlight is placed within this tent-like cover to illuminate it.

footlight paralysis is one of the most terrifying of all acute diseases and there is no cure for it but experience.

Dazed and wordless, weak from stage-fright, he permitted himself to be led forth into the terrifying glare of the footlight world.

There's far more heroism in the attitude of men out here than in the footlight attitude that journalists paint for the public.

To use the torch or hand lantern, a footlight must be employed as a point of reference to the motion.

He did not mean it literally, footlight affairs being unfashionable.

Word Value for footlight
Scrable

16

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