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View synonyms for Very lights

Very lights

[ ver-ee ]

plural noun

  1. a variety of colored signal flares, fired from a special pistol Very pistol.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Very lights1

1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor
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Example Sentences

Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!

As he spoke, three green Very lights came from the cockpit of the plane.

After the manœuvres the Gamma flew by night over Cambridge and bombarded that seat of learning with Very lights.

Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.

No lights could be shown, they did not even dare use "Very lights," as our "star-lights" are known.

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