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sunshot en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌnʃɒt/ (UK)

Etymology

From sun + shot.

Meanings

1. (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
   • Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about. 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 91:
   • Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess. 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:

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