moonglade
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]moonglade (plural moonglades)
- (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- 1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232:
- Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty. The reflected lane of light supplies what the mind craves in a picture—a path that seems to lead to some place of unknown and longed-for happiness […]
- 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert:
- Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.
- 1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind:
- The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely.
- 1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim:
- a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean