ashen light

noun

, Astronomy.

1. a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.

Example Sentences

When at last all that could be done had been done, the east was beginning to take on a sort of ashen light—the forerunner of dawn.

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At noon there was no sunshine, only a wan, ashen light that suffused the sky.

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