foot-light

English

Noun

foot-light (plural foot-lights)

  1. Dated spelling of footlight.
    • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, pages 202-203:
      "A most unsubstantial one!" cried the actress: "give me the praise that rings upon the ear; the applause that comes over the foot-lights!...
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