fairy lights

singular fairy light

1. AustraliaIrelandUKpluralplural normallySmall electric lights on a strand which are used decoratively, especially on Christmas trees.

   I managed to put quite a lot of small baubles on the top of the tree that way and helped drape the long string of fairy lights around it, […]

   2010, Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas, HarperCollins, →ISBN

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   Through the trees ahead came odd strains from the dance band in the Casino, and now I could see many twinkling fairy lights and detect moving figures.

   1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 13

   A constant, slightly defocused, dinner party with relaxed glamorous friends, carrying on just outside the kitchen door, under the fairy lights.

   2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19

   Synonyms: Christmas lights