Bengal light

Alternative forms

 * Bengola light

Noun

 * 1) A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.
 * 2) * 1981, Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, trans. CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, Folio Society 2005, p. 40:
 * I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which the glow of a Bengal light or a searchlight beam will cut out and illuminate in a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness
 * 1) * "Details of a Sunset", Vladimir Nabokov, collected stories Penguin p.90
 * The last streetcar was disappearing in the mirrorlike murk of the street and, along the wire above it, a spark of Bengal light, crackling and quivering , sped into the distance like a blue star.
 * The last streetcar was disappearing in the mirrorlike murk of the street and, along the wire above it, a spark of Bengal light, crackling and quivering , sped into the distance like a blue star.

Translations

 * Bengali: বাংলা বাতি
 * Catalan: llum de bengala
 * Finnish: bengalin tuli, bengalintuli
 * German: bengalisches Feuer
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: lus-benggala
 * Ukrainian: