footlights
Example Sentences
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They were also the days when theaters had footlights.
From New York Times
Lovers of musicals will groove on the shamelessness of its footlights worship.
From Washington Post
This envy pushed her off the sofa: a footlights career, as Ball put it in her autobiography, was the “ambition of my life.”
From New York Times
Instead of footlights, there were the beams of headlights surrounding the makeshift stage.
From New York Times
She steps forward, toward the footlights, and performs a dance, then introduces herself in the droning style of an ancient soliloquy.
From New York Times
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