interlunar
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of interlunar
Example Sentences
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It is like "the vacant interlunar cave" John Milton wrote of in Samson Agonistes.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013
He was very fond, also, of the word interlunar.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
After them there was a long interlunar period of darkness for the land of the Rhine and the Danube.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Poem 252. interlunar swoon: interval of the Moon's invisibility.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
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