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名詞

moonglade (複数形 moonglades)

1. (poetic, まれに) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
   • 1913, Advance (volume 98, page 232)

     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 […]

   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert:

     Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.

   • 1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind:

     The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely.

   • 1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim:

     a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean