moonlighted en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From moon + lighted.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| moon-lighted | alternative | lexicographic |