| 单词 | bengal light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBengal light Bengal light n. a kind of firework producing a steady and vivid blue-coloured light, used for signals; also figurative (see also quot. 1899). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > pyrotechnic signals blue light1761 fire shell1765 Indian light1787 Bengal light1791 Indian fire1831 flare-up light1858 flare1883 Very1907 fairy light1916 Aldis lamp1917 Aldis1918 Bengal fire1941 flame float1942 Bengal flash1946 1791 Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 5 Sept. 3/5 A Bengola Light. 1818 in Pall Mall Gaz. (1885) 5 Nov. 4/2 Superior Fireworks... A Bengal light. 1852 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. (1954) II. 54 Froude is good—writes very judiciously and pleasantly, except that at the end he brings on Bengal lights and goes off in a Carlylian flourish. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 381/1 Used for the manufacture of Bengal lights. 1899 Connorton's Tobacco Brand Directory U.S. 550 Bengal Lights (cigarettes and cheroots). < as lemmas |
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