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  • noun Illumination from underneath.

Etymologies

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under- +‎ lighting

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Examples

  • The underlighting is combined with a strong, cool edge light from the right.

    Portrait Lighting: Underlighting James Gurney 2010

  • Another form of facial underlighting that has a positive, non-sinister connotation for me, at least is the light on a person swimming in an outdoor swimming pool at night.

    Portrait Lighting: Underlighting James Gurney 2010

  • The underlighting is combined with a strong, cool edge light from the right.

    Archive 2010-05-01 James Gurney 2010

  • Here, for example, at the casual pinnacle of their professionalism, they had duplicated exactly the pale wash of the ubiquitous high school fluorescents, though with enough soft underlighting to give everything within it a kind of white, dull gleam.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Here, for example, at the casual pinnacle of their professionalism, they had duplicated exactly the pale wash of the ubiquitous high school fluorescents, though with enough soft underlighting to give everything within it a kind of white, dull gleam.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Here, for example, at the casual pinnacle of their professionalism, they had duplicated exactly the pale wash of the ubiquitous high school fluorescents, though with enough soft underlighting to give everything within it a kind of white, dull gleam.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Walking out, the draught of poetry still on my spirit's throat, how could I resist the buoyancy of the sun underlighting a grayshield sky, the rain-soggied pavement accusing the air

    tis glorious dudemanflab 2006

  • The Firelord lifted the weapon from his lap; its reddened glow touched his upturned features, underlighting his jaw to more angular contours, and lending his brows a pronounced arch.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • The LaCinema drive features a black-with-blue-underlighting design from frequent LaCie collaborator

    Digital Trends 2009

  • beautiful orange underlighting man - just beautiful

    Pabco Paper william wray 2006

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