window light
- noun
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- She positioned the flowers near the window light to enhance the colors in her photographs.
Examples
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Before she left them, his mother made noodles by hand, by window light, lifting the dough over and over again like the hem of her apron.
Fiction book (1996) -
One of her sculptures sat in window light, in angles of anger or confusion; it seemed to him.
Fiction book (1997) -
In an oblong of window light, I saw the girl was Retta.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the dimming window light, she seemed to follow the men's conversation.
Fiction book (1991) -
Inman walked all that night, circling north through a heavily populated country, window lights shining everywhere, dogs barking.
Fiction book (1997) -
The women's handkerchiefs daubed and fluttered before their faces now as if they were trying to catch the bits of colored window light.
Fiction book (1998) -
Passing her bedroom, he glanced inside, sheets flung spilling, her bed gaping with window light, a pillow crumpled on the floor.
Fiction book (1997) -
The young wife had spent an hour at the mirror to choose the shapeless blouse and slacks she wore, actually taking her contacts back out to wear her glasses as well, and nothing on her face in the window light but a quick dab-and-blot of gloss.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then something alerts Archer—maybe the fleeting shadows that blot out the window light for the barest second.
Fiction book (1997) -
The artist captured the soft glow of window light as it illuminated the canvas in her studio.
Synonyms
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1.0
The light from the sun that makes things bright during the day
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2.2
Light that comes from the sun, not from lamps
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Morphology
The meaning 'natural light that enters a room through a window' is a direct, literal combination of 'window' (an opening with glass) and 'light' (brightness), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. Although it is used specifically in photography contexts, the compositional logic is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Window light also names the light that comes through a window. Artists and photographers liked this soft, gentle light and began to call it 'window light', so today it means 'natural light that comes through a window'.