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sidelight

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side⋅light

[sahyd-lahyt]
–noun
1. an item of incidental information.
2. either of two lights carried by a vessel under way at night, a red one on the port side and a green on the starboard.
3. light coming from the side.
4. a window or other aperture for light in the side of a building, ship, etc.
5. a window at the side of a door or another window.

Origin:
1600–10; side 1 + light 1
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side·light   (sīd'līt')   
n.  
  1. A light coming from the side.

  2. Nautical Either of two lights, red to port, green to starboard, shown by ships at night.

  3. A piece of incidental or contrasting information.

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Word Origin & History

sidelight 
1610, "light coming from the side," from side + light (n.). Meaning "incidental information on a subject" is attested from 1862.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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