moonshine
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2.3
Soft light from the moon seen at night
- noun
- /ˈmuːnʃaɪn/
:
luz de la luna
- And yet, conditions should have been perfect: gnarled trees, whispering wind, moonshine so bright I could see my reflection in the limpid pool - the kind of atmosphere that's stock-in-trade for us poets.
- moonshine light
- moonshine bright
Examples
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Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died
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And you can tell her when you get back, that Ed Plummer might take a ride out to see her, one of these moonshine nights.
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As the moonshine sank into him, Dutch felt a great weight shift within, independent of the way his body moved.
Fiction book (1999) -
On a clear night, the moonshine illuminated the path through the dark forest.
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The garden looked magical under the soft moonshine as the flowers glowed in the night.
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She sat outside, enjoying the peaceful silence while bathed in moonshine.
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Compounds
Surface Forms
moonshine singular
moonshines plural
Morphology
Etymology
Moonshine comes from moon and shine, meaning 'Moon' and 'light', so it originally named the soft light from the Moon and now means the light we see at night.