moonglade

English

Etymology

From moon +‎ glade.

Noun

moonglade (plural moonglades)

1. (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
   • 1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232:

     Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty. The reflected lane of light supplies what the mind craves in a picture—a path that seems to lead to some place of unknown and longed-for happiness […]

   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert:

     Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.

   • 1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind:

     The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely.

   • 1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim:

     a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean

Synonyms

• moonwake

Related terms

• sunglade

Anagrams

• megalodon