ashimmer
ashimmer adjective: shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
Adjective
ashimmer (not comparable)
- Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
- […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.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....
- The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.1898, Henry Noel Brailsford, chapter 11, in The Broom of the War-God,, London: Heinemann, page 130
Examples of ashimmer in a sentence
- 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.1941, Rachel Carson, Under the Sea-Wind, New York: Oxford University Press, published 1952, Book 2, Chapter 12:
- resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate2001, Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon,, Boston: Beacon Press, page 52:
Origin of ashimmer
From a- + shimmer.
Questions about ashimmer
- What does ashimmer mean?
- Ashimmer means shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
- How do you use ashimmer in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is ashimmer?
- Ashimmer is an adjective.
Words near ashimmer in the dictionary
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