"Bengal light" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1981, Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, trans. CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, Folio Society 2005, p. 40",
          "text": "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"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 161",
          "text": "at last, as if given up on our common sense, they took their leave with a salute of Bengal lights from which irony may not have been entirely absent.",
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          "ref": "\"Details of a Sunset\", Vladimir Nabokov, collected stories Penguin p.90",
          "text": "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."
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        "A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks."
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          "flare",
          "flare"
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          "signalling"
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          "firework",
          "firework"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blue light"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bengola light"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "baṅla bati",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "word": "বাংলা বাতি"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "llum de bengala"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "word": "bengalin tuli"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "word": "bengalintuli"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "bengalisches Feuer"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "foc bengal"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bengálʹskij ogónʹ",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "бенга́льский ого́нь"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "benhálʹsʹkyj vohónʹ",
          "sense": "bright blue flare",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "бенга́льський вого́нь"
        }
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  "word": "Bengal light"
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          "text": "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"
        },
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          "text": "at last, as if given up on our common sense, they took their leave with a salute of Bengal lights from which irony may not have been entirely absent.",
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          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
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        "A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "blue light"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bengola light"
    }
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "baṅla bati",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "word": "বাংলা বাতি"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "llum de bengala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "word": "bengalin tuli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "word": "bengalintuli"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bengalisches Feuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "foc bengal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bengálʹskij ogónʹ",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бенга́льский ого́нь"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "benhálʹsʹkyj vohónʹ",
      "sense": "bright blue flare",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бенга́льський вого́нь"
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  "word": "Bengal light"
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