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ashimmer en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + shimmer.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
    • The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light. 1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12:
    • 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65, […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.
    • The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer. 1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, chapter 11, in The Broom of the War-God,, London: Heinemann, page 130:
    • resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate 2001, Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon,, Boston: Beacon Press, page 52: