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Floodlight

noun

Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood.

verb

(past floodlit; past part. floodlit)

Illuminate with floodlights.

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"Floodlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... crusted with fifty millennia of dust, filtered in a dim twilight; even the breach in the wall, in the morning shade, lighted only a small patch of floor. Somebody snapped on a floodlight, aiming it at the ceiling. The big room was empty and bare; dust lay thick on the floor and reddened the once-white walls. It could have been a large office, but there was nothing left in it to indicate ...

— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper

... and crusted with fifty millennia of dust, filtered in a dim twilight; even the breach in the wall, in the morning shade, lighted only a small patch of floor. Somebody snapped on a floodlight, aiming it at the ceiling. The big room was empty and bare; dust lay thick on the floor and reddened the once-white walls. It could have been a large office, but there was nothing left in ...

— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper