fairy lights

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fairy lights pl (normally plural, singular fairy light)

1. (UK) Small electric lights on a strand which are used decoratively, especially on Christmas trees.
   • 2010, Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas‎, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

     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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• Christmas lights