footlight

• foot-light

From foot +‎ light.

footlight (plural footlights)

1. A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
   • 2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:

     Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.

• light

• Lightfoot, lightfoot