Bengal light

English Alternative forms Bengola light Noun A bright blue flare prepared from niter, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks. en Bengal fire bengola blue light I 1981 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 144 until 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. en 2012 1924 w:Details of a Sunset w:Dmitri Nabokov w:Vladimir Nabokov Collected Stories Penguin 90 https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&hl=de&id=ckJrDRibDZAC&q=bengal#v=snippet&q=bengal&f=false 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. en-GB Angela Giuffrida Sparklers held near ceiling started Swiss ski resort fire, investigators believe The Guardian 2026-01-02 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/02/swiss-ski-resort-fire-injured-life-threatening-condition 0261-3077 Jon Henley “Everything suggests the fire started from the burning candles or ‘Bengal lights’ that had been attached to champagne bottles,” the prosecutor Béatrice Pilloud said on Friday. “These went too close to the ceiling.” Translations bright blue flare Bengali: bn বাংলা বাতি Catalan: ca llum de bengala f Finnish: fi bengalin tuli, fi bengalintuli German: de bengalisches Feuer n Romanian: ro foc bengal n Russian: ru бенга́льский ого́нь m Swedish: sv bengalisk eld c Tagalog: tl lus-benggala Ukrainian: uk бенга́льський вого́нь m en Pyrotechnics