crosslight

American  

[kraws-lahyt, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌlaɪt, ˈkrɒs- /

noun

1. a light shone across the path of another to illuminate an area left dark by the first light.

2. light originating from sources not facing each other, as from windows in two adjacent walls.

3. light originating from counterlights.

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Other Word Forms

• crosslighted adjective

Etymology

Origin of crosslight

First recorded in 1850–55; cross- + light ¹

Example Sentences

Goodman's sunny menace sheds a glorious crosslight on Turturro's superb performance as an almost perfectly unattractive man, at once arrogant and self-effacing, politically articulate yet incapable of ordinary human connections.

From Time Magazine Archive

A diffused brightness, a kind of high crosslight of conflicting windows, rests for me at all events on the little realm of Mr. Pulling Jenks and bathes it as with positively sweet limitations.

From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry