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Meanings of fairy lights in English

Russian
рождественские огни
Portuguese
pisca-pisca
Catalan
lluminàries
Spanish
luces navideñas

Decorative lighting at Christmastime.

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        Synonyms
        Examples for "christmas lights"
        Examples for "christmas lights"
        1
        If you remove one bulb in a string of christmas lights, they all go out.
        Wired
        2
        Early December sees Christmas lights and banners advertising garish pantomimes dominate downtown.
        The whole world: a novel
        3
        The house has been emptied in readiness for decorations and Christmas lights.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The day had died and redundant Christmas lights winked in shop windows.
        The coldest blood
        5
        Christmas lights shone and flashed from Christmas wreaths hanging around the room.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of fairy lights in English
        1
        With its fairy lights and family gatherings, Christmas becomes a reflecting pool.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The air was bitterly cold and fairy lights twinkled in the trees.
        The Guardian
        3
        The streets of Villefranche would come alive with neon and fairy lights.
        Life
        4
        The streets are still decorated with fairy lights clustered in star shapes.
        The Guardian
        5
        Country roads were strung with fairy lights to mark the occasion.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Soon it will be time to pack away the fairy lights.
        The Irish Times
        7
        To my left, Tucson sparkles like it's made of fairy lights.
        Seven Minutes in Heaven
        8
        Last Saturday evening, three burly policemen stood under those fairy lights clutching truncheons.
        Reuters
        9
        As will decorating your wireless device with holly and fairy lights.
        News.com.au
        10
        In the distance, crowned by fairy lights, the cruise liner waited.
        iD
        11
        It was lit up with fairy lights and full of people.
        Flawless
        12
        Up-stream shone the fairy lights of the other bridges that span the East River.
        The Secret Wireless; Or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
        13
        On a summer evenings, they play jazz, while fairy lights twinkle on the water.
        Independent.ie
        14
        The fairy lights tremble overhead, battered by wind and fog.
        This is where we live
        15
        Crisp, white cruise ships fill the basin, their fairy lights glinting off the water.
        The half life of stars: a novel
        16
        Eight-year-old Yahya and his family built the structure from cardboard, fairy lights and sweet wrappers.
        BBC