torchlight

[ tawrch-lahyt ]

noun

1. the light lights of a torch or torches. torch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of torchlight¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; torch ¹, light ¹

Example Sentences

In 2014, three years before he led the torchlight march at the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Spencer tweeted, “Is not population control and reduction the obvious solution to the ravages of climate change?”

From Salon

Others were reading by torchlight.

From BBC

“These monsters spent their last days here destroying everything,” says one of them about the Americans, as Mansour and his team inspect the former CIA base for the first time by torchlight.

From BBC

As the torchlight grew brighter and the cave started to widen, Jack stopped completely.

From Literature

Mr Fooks was digging with a pickaxe by torchlight when he found the coins in a pottery bowl buried in a bare earth floor.

From BBC