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moonlighted en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From moon + lighted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Illuminated by moonlight.
    • I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling. 1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41:
    • “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]” 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

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Synonyms

moonlight · moonlit · moonshiny

moonlighted en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From moonlight + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of moonlight
    form of moonlight