Definition of "footlights" []

• Lights placed in a row along the front of a stage floor. (noun-plural)
• The theater as a profession. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Being behind the footlights was a constant struggle."
• "Its rewards are abundant in friendships as well as in cash, and the happiness radiated to you from behind the footlights is the direct result of the happiness that permeates the very being of the smiling favorite of the gods whose efforts to please you have met with your approbation."
• "The footlights are the equator of the theatre, separating the"