aglare

American  

[uh-glair] / əˈglɛər /

adjective

1. glaring; blazing.

   The sky was aglare with spotlights.

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Etymology

Origin of aglare

First recorded in 1870–75; a- ¹ + glare ¹

Example Sentences

A second car was burning, and the whole place was aglare with yellow light.

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo

At the same time back clumped the man, aglare with rage.

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

There was a waving of hands and handkerchiefs from the little station, aglare in the early afternoon sun.

From Different Girls by Various

It was as though we were lunching in a New York subway station: a great, vaulted, white-tiled room aglare with electric lights.

From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

Alas! for many a moon, That tongueless tower hath cleaved the Sabbath air, Mute as an obelisk of ice, aglare Beneath an Arctic noon.

From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry