noonlight
English
Etymology
noon + light
Noun
noonlight (uncountable)
- The full sunlight that occurs at noon.
- 1838 March, “To Mihri, By Rahiki, Native of Constantinople”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 11, number 63, page 300:
- My starlight, my moonlight, my midnight, my noonlight, Unveil not, unveil not, or millions must pine.
- 2008, Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men:
- The shadows showed up what brilliant noonlight couldn't see.
- 2011, Randy Boyagoda, Beggar's Feast:
- The bull stepped around the crumpled body like a dainty lady avoiding a mud puddle, its tail swishing at heat and all the greenflies gathering in its wake, their own bodies flashing in the noonlight like a shattered gemstone tossed up in the heavy harbour air that would be Sam's last breath of Ceylon for ten years.