interlunar

American  

[in-ter-loo-ner] / ˌɪn tərˈlu nər /

adjective

1. pertaining to the moon's monthly period of invisibility between the old moon and the new.

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Etymology

Origin of interlunar

First recorded in 1590–1600; inter- + lunar

Example Sentences

It is like "the vacant interlunar cave" John Milton wrote of in Samson Agonistes.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013

In the "vacant interlunar caves" where he hid himself, he could hardly feel the restraints that press on those who move within ear-shot and jostle of their fellows on this actual earth.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

"The sun to me is dark, And silent is the moon, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

It hangs vacant, one may say; extinct, like the Moon in her vacant interlunar cave.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Now the highest imagination is concerned about the soul of things; it may or may not inspire the Fantasy that peoples with images the interlunar vague.

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan