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icelight

icelight noun: the light reflected off a surface of ice.

Noun

icelight (uncountable)

  1. (poetic, rare) The light reflected off a surface of ice.
    • 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...1846, Julius Charles Hare, The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons, page 195
    • 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.1982, The Nation, volume 234, page 212

Origin of icelight

From ice + light.

Questions about icelight

What does icelight mean?
Icelight means the light reflected off a surface of ice.
What part of speech is icelight?
Icelight is a noun.

Words near icelight in the dictionary

  1. iceleaf
  2. iceless
  3. icelessness
  4. icelid
  5. icelids
  6. icelight
  7. icelike
  8. ICEM
  9. icemaker
  10. icemakers
  11. icemaking

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