- LIMELIGHT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of LIMELIGHT is a stage lighting instrument producing illumination by means of an oxyhydrogen flame directed on a cylinder of lime and usually equipped with a lens to concentrate the light in a beam
- Limelight - Wikipedia
Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be "in the limelight" The actual lamps are called "limes", a term which has been transferred to electrical equivalents
- Where did the phrase “in the limelight” come from? - HISTORY
In the early 1820s, English inventor Goldsworthy Gurney, improving on the work of earlier scientists, developed a blowpipe that burned hydrogen and oxygen to create an extremely hot flame When
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- THE LIMELIGHT definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
(Definition of the limelight from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- Limelight | Stagecraft, Performance, Illumination | Britannica
The expression “in the limelight” originally referred to the most desirable acting area on the stage, the front and centre, which was brilliantly illuminated by limelights
- Limelight - definition of limelight by The Free Dictionary
lime•light (ˈlaɪmˌlaɪt) n 1 a position at the center of public attention, observation, or notoriety: an artist in the limelight 2 a (formerly) a spotlight unit for the stage, using a flame of mixed gases directed at a cylinder of lime and a special lens to concentrate the light in a strong beam b the light so produced
- LIMELIGHT Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
the light so produced Chiefly British , a lighting unit, especially a spotlight the center of public attention, interest, observation, or notoriety He seems fond of the limelight
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