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Etymology

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From a- +‎ shimmer.

Adjective

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ashimmer (not comparable)

  1. Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
    • 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65,[1]
      [] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.
    • 1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, chapter 11, in The Broom of the War-God,[2], London: Heinemann, page 130:
      The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.
    • 1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind[3], New York: Oxford University Press, published 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12:
      The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.
    • 2001, Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon,[4], Boston: Beacon Press, page 52:
      resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate

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