From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsidelightside‧light /ˈsaɪdlaɪt/ noun [countable] British English TTCone of the two small lights next to the main front lights on a car SYN parking light American English
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sidelight• A $ 1 million lawsuit, with amusing sidelights and important ramifications for the federal budget debate, must be adjudicated.• By four o'clock car sidelights were on, small-eyed in the gathering gloom.• In the end we compromised, Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight.• Through the frosted window blazed the cold light of winter morning; sidelight, the most harsh.• It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.• Oscar read it carefully by the sidelights of his huge vehicle. 