[ noun ] light from a torch or torches <noun.phenomenon>
Torchlight \Torch"light`\, n. The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
Clad in white robes reserved for the holiest ceremonies, Emperor Akihito will complete his accession to the throne by communing with the Shinto gods in a room bathed in flickering torchlight.
The question before my family had been whether to leave our comfortable, middle-class existence and cross the ocean to the unknown. The decision was made for us one night when, following a torchlight parade, the Nazis broke into our house.
They arrive early because pole position can make the difference between clearing their stock and not selling a thing. Although the fair does not open officially until mid-morning on Monday, most dealers start selling by torchlight around dawn.
Lifting a slender, 5-foot-high cross before him, Pope John Paul II led a torchlight procession through the Colosseum Friday night to re-enact Jesus' march to his crucifixion.
Envious? Though heavy with hot air of zealots and rascals, most of the elections since then also offered American voters some fun and entertainment in the torchlight parades, the bands and songs, the wit and spark of combat.
Eskimos imagined dangerous spirits, while Swedes thought it was the torchlight of Lapps stalking stray reindeer.
Last year, their spirits lifted with the prospects of approaching democracy, more than 100,000 people marked the uprising with an emotional torchlight rally.