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Q: What does "His long, straight blue hair glimmers even beneath the harsh glow of the *false* lights." What does this "false" mean? Does it mean artificial? mean?
A: "Flase light" seems unusual to me.In the context of the passage you quoted, it simply looks strange, or even wrong. It is certainly unusual. But English is very forgiving: this doesn't break any rules. I suppose the writer is trying to be a little original or poetic.

I've looked online now for examples. I can find a specific US legal usage, for a kind of legal wrong when someone puts another person "in a false light" - makes them appear to be something that they are not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light

Then there is an example where someone uses the phrase to mean "deliberately misleading lights" - lights designed to fool a sailor into crashing his boat onto rocks.
http://www.zyra.global/www.zyra.tv/wreckers-false-lights.htm

There appear to be no good definitions. The best I can find refers to the deliberate deception aspect , and is here:
https://www.definitions.net/definition/false+lights

Then there is a folk music band using this as a name. Often bands choose names that are rare or striking, so that they are memorable and easier to find in an internet search.
http://falselights.co.uk/about/

This search shows typical usages with "lights" in English

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