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rainlight en · NOUN

Etymology

From rain + light.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The dim light that occurs on an overcast and rainy day.
    • The afternoon darkened and the spare stone towers of the villages paled in the rainlight. 2012, David Mason, News from The Village: Aegean Friends:
    • This one was gentle, there was a little mercy coming down with the rain; the colours of everything were heightened by the rainlight; except for the holes of bright emptiness it was a day you could work with. 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder:

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