fairy lights
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- (UK, Ireland) Small electric lights on a strand which are used decoratively, especially on Christmas trees.
- 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 13:
- Through the trees ahead came odd strains from the dance band in the Casino, and now I could see many twinkling fairy lights and detect moving figures.
- 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
- A constant, slightly defocused, dinner party with relaxed glamorous friends, carrying on just outside the kitchen door, under the fairy lights.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fairy lights.
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