sunshaft
English
Etymology
sun + shaft
Noun
sunshaft (plural sunshafts)
- A shaft of sunlight; a sunbeam.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast