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From foot +‎ light.

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footlight (plural footlights)

  1. A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
    • 2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
      Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.

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