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Sidelight
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A light found at the side of something; especially of a vehicle.
"If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on."
- 2 light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow wordnet
- 3 A light found at the side of something; especially of a vehicle.; (nautical) Red and green navigation lights indicating each side of a ship for collision avoidance; red on the port (left) and green on the starboard. broadly
- 4 A window found at one or both sides of a door.
- 5 A piece of incidental information that helps one understand a subject.
"A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history."
Etymology
From side + light.
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