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torch-lit en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Lit by one or more torches.
   • Then, amid shouts from the watching crowd, the torch-lit ceremony ends with gunfire ringing out beneath the clear night winter sky. 2025 February 13, Stephen Castle, “Singing to Trees to Make Good Cider: An Ancient English Ritual Is Back”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2025:
   • Wearing his white coat to guard against the nighttime chill, Francis listened intently along with some 20,000 faithful as the meditations re-enacting Christ's crucifixion were read out in the torch-lit Colosseum. 2018 March 31, Associated Press, “Pope presides over Good Friday, but wait — did he say there's no hell?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2018:
   • a torchlit procession
   • I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls. 2015 February 3, Lee Kelly, “Sarah”, in City of Savages, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 388:

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Synonyms

torch-lighted