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moonglade en · NOUN

Etymology

From moon + glade.

Meanings

1. (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
   • The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely. 1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind:
   • 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 […] 1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232:
   • a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean 1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim:
   • Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose. 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert:

Forms

Relateds

sunglade

Synonyms

moonwake