"fairy lights" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 13",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas, HarperCollins",
          "text": "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, […]",
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          "ref": "2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19",
          "text": "A constant, slightly defocused, dinner party with relaxed glamorous friends, carrying on just outside the kitchen door, under the fairy lights.",
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        "(UK) Small electric lights on a strand which are used decoratively, especially on Christmas trees."
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          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "kıtay panarı",
          "sense": "lights",
          "word": "кытай панары"
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          "word": "solais Nollaige"
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      "sense": "lights",
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