dawnlight
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editdawnlight (uncountable)
- The light of dawn.
- 1965, Frank Herbert, “Book Three: The Prophet”, in Dune[1] (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 402[2]:
- It came from the southeast, a distant hissing, a sandwhisper. Presently he saw the faraway outline of the creature’s track against the dawnlight and realized he had never before seen a maker this large, never heard of one this size. It appeared to be more than half a league long, and the rise of the sandwave at its cresting head was like the approach of a mountain.
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editlight of dawn
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