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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

Very lights were fired by the enemy continually, illuminating the whole country-side and making the work more hazardous than ever.

How weak she was when she turned the knob and entered––the very lights seemed dancing around her.

As it gets darker, the flashes of the guns and the Very lights' solemn brilliance illuminate the whole show like a map.

Her eyes, her eyes were the very lights of love, carrying passionate kisses on their beams.

The very lights burned deprecatingly, illuminating beauties upon which no eye gazed and for which no heart beat.

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