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Etymology

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From torch +‎ light.

Noun

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torchlight (countable and uncountable, plural torchlights)

  1. The dim light produced by a burning torch.
    • 1953 January, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:
      A number of towns in East Sussex, and on the borders of Kent and Surrey, make a special feature of huge bonfires and torchlight processions with fireworks on Guy Fawkes day or an early November Saturday.
  2. The light produced by a flashlight.
  3. (countable, India, Malaysia, Nigeria) A torch or flashlight.

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