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Christmas's gateway drug, strung up in July by people who refuse to be sad.
means Small electric bulbs strung on a thin wire, used as decorative lighting indoors or out, especially around holidays.
from The phrase predates electricity — "fairy lights" first described the tiny coloured oil lamps and small candles used to decorate Victorian gardens and theatres in the late 19th century, their flickering glow thought to evoke the magical, otherworldly twinkle associated with fairies. When tiny electric bulbs arrived, they inherited both the name and the enchantment. "Fairy" itself traces back through Old French faerie to Latin fata, the fates.
- original fuel
- Early ones used real candles clipped to branches
- first electric
- Edison's partner wired a tree in 1882
- fire risk
- Hand-wired trees once needed firefighters standing by
- mood science
- Soft warm light genuinely lowers cortisol levels
- naming
- Brits say fairy lights, Americans say string lights
lumineers enchanted forest — annual light festival in elfia, netherlands with 50,000+ fairy lights strung through woodland
taj mahal night illumination — indian monument lit by 6,000+ led lights on full moon nights, agra