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aglint

[uh-glint]

adjective

  1. displaying bright points of light, as by reflection; glittering.

    a diamond tiara aglint under the ballroom lights.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of aglint1

First recorded in 1875–80; a- 1 + glint
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Example Sentences

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Executioners hover over them, dressed in black, knives aglint.

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The man who never saw anything in a rose aglint in the sunlight or in a lily asleep in the moonlight, but a species of useless vegetable, the inferior of the cabbage and the onion.

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His step was springy, his shoulders squared, his eyes aglint with reminiscence as he strode on to the West Point parade ground to review the Corps of Cadets.

A long expanse of the Hudson was in sight from where he stood, its broad, rippled surface aglint in the September sunshine.

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"Listen well!" warned Salezar, his beady eyes aglint.

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