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Phosphor en · PROPN
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”).
Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus,[…]
1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:All night no ruder air perplex
Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC: