| 释义 |
footlights, n. pl.|ˈfʊtlaɪts|
a. A row of lights placed in front of the stage of a theatre, on a level with the feet of the actors, and furnished with reflectors so as to throw all their light upon the scene. across the footlights: see across B. prep. 2 b. Often transf. = the ‘stage’; to smell of the footlights = to be redolent of the stage.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 74/2 The foot-lights have just made their appearance. 1880Ouida Moths II. 322 My own art has a little too much smell of the footlights; I have..too many [hours] with the gaslit crowds before me. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 270 His experience of the foot⁓lights had not chilled..his love of Nature.
b. attrib. (in sing.)
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 324 The foot⁓light style of phrase. 1894G. Egerton Keynotes 1 The mental picture of footlight flare and fantastic dance. |