moonlighted
English
editEtymology 1
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editmoonlighted (not comparable)
- Illuminated by moonlight.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […] ”
- 1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman[1], New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41:
- I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
Synonyms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editmoonlighted
- simple past and past participle of moonlight
References
edit- ^ “moonlighted, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.