icelight

English

Etymology

ice +‎ light

Noun

icelight (uncountable)

1. (poetic, rare) The light reflected off a surface of ice.
   • 1846, Julius Charles Hare, The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons‎^[1], page 195:

     Moreover, as the light which comes down from heaven, is not a cold barren snowlight or icelight, merely opening a field for the eye to wander in, but is full of penetrating, cheering, lifegiving warmth, thus the light which comes from Christ does not merely enlighten our mental eye, but, so far as it does indeed come from Him, pervades our whole nature, and manifests itself in the light of a holy life, no less than in moral and spiritual intuitions.

   • 1982, The Nation, volume 234, page 212:

     From this turnpike he walked far, only to stand in icelight where the poets and brothers rocked in the rickety porch-dark of his body.

   • 1986, West Coast Review, volume 20, number 4, page 15:

     Pause behind the children framed in melting icelight. The always present pocket-camera is not in the pocket.