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Sidelight

noun
1.
Light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow.  Synonym: running light.





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"Sidelight" Quotes from Famous Books



... An interesting sidelight on the war may be found in "Life with the Confederate Army," by Watson, being the experiences of a Scotchman who for a time ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... concluding remark, I may mention that my experience of riding has thrown a very interesting sidelight upon a rather puzzling point in history. It is recorded of the famous Henry the Second that he was "almost constantly in the saddle, and of so restless a disposition that he never sat down, even at meals." I had hitherto been unable to ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock


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