sunglade
English
Etymology
From sun + glade
Noun
sunglade (plural sunglades)
- A glade in a forest with a lot of sunshine coming in.
- An area of sunlight on a body of water.
- 1874, Jane Goodwin Austin, Moonfolk: A True Account of the Home of the Fairy Tales (page 14)
- […] 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 1874, Jane Goodwin Austin, Moonfolk: A True Account of the Home of the Fairy Tales (page 14)
- A sunbeam. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
- moonglade