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Bengal light   /bˈɛŋgəl laɪt/   Listen
Bengal light

noun
1.
A steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework.





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"Bengal light" Quotes from Famous Books



... descended, perpendicular as a plummet line, until it vanished in the gulf below, from which arose a sound of dripping water. This, my guide informed me, was "Gorin's Dome." Taking then from his haversack a Bengal light, he ignited it and threw it into the dark void. The sulphurous light shot up and up into a dome unlike anything built by human hands, unless it might be the interior of some tremendous tower, eighty feet in width, and nearly two hundred in height, which the beholder viewed from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various
... barge had been so slow, that it had halted almost unawares in front of the beautiful palace, and straightway a rosy bengal light lit up the carvings of the fairy-like facade with a magical effect. The band, lurking melodramatically under the gleaming arches of the barge, struck up a prelude, and presently a soprano voice rose high and strong above the wind and stringed instruments, ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller


Words linked to "Bengal light" :   flare, flash


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