Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of glass, or a frame with many pieces of glass, let into a floor to allow of the transmission of light from above.
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Examples
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Sing through, and each with a floor-light racing along at its side.
Embankment at Night: Outcasts David Herbert 1916
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Sing through, and each with a floor-light racing along at its side.
New Poems 1907
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They looked at the earth through the floor-light, but it was little more than visible -- a black spot drowned in the solar rays.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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The bolts of the floor-light, which was more than a foot in diameter, were carefully unscrewed, while Ardan, a good deal affected, prepared to launch his dog's body into space.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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