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sunglade en · NOUN

Etymology

From sun + glade.

Meanings

1. A glade in a forest with a lot of sunshine coming in.
2. An area of sunlight on a body of water.
   • 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:
   • […] sometimes, also, the rising or setting sun produces a sunglade, like a river of molten gold, or rather of pure fire, flowing across the ocean toward the earth […] 1874, Jane Goodwin Austin, Moonfolk: A True Account of the Home of the Fairy Tales, page 14:
3. A sunbeam.

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Relateds

moonglade