Phosphor
See also: phosphor
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Phosphor
- Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”)
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto IX:
- All night no ruder air perplex
Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
- 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:
- Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Phosphor.
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Phosphor m (strong, genitive Phosphors, no plural)
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Declension of Phosphor [sg-only, masculine, strong]
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Phosphor ? (uncountable)