rainlight

English

Etymology

From rain +‎ light.

Noun

rainlight (uncountable)

1. The dim light that occurs on an overcast and rainy day.
   • 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder:

     This one was gentle, there was a little mercy coming down with the rain; the colours of everything were heightened by the rainlight; except for the holes of bright emptiness it was a day you could work with.

   • 2012, David Mason, News from The Village: Aegean Friends:

     The afternoon darkened and the spare stone towers of the villages paled in the rainlight.