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afterlight

[ af-ter-lahyt, ahf- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1890–95; after + light ¹

My conduct, as well as yours, when we look at it calmly in an afterlight, was quite extraordinary.

The deodars sank waist deep into filmy shadow, and the yellow afterlight lay silently among the branches.

The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight.

But it was evening now and the valley beneath us was brimmed up with the glow of the afterlight.

Alppain had set, but the whole northern sky was plunged into the minor key by its afterlight.

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