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colour light en · NOUN
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(UK, abbreviation, alt-of) Short for colour light signal.
Progress cannot be denied and must not be deprecated. Colour-lights are obviously the signals of the future. […] The traditional British signal is on its way out. Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches.
1957 June 14, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 423:
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