lunar rainbow

American  

noun

1. moonbow.

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Etymology

Origin of lunar rainbow

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

We have just seen a splendid lunar rainbow, and I suspect it forebodes a good deal more wind than we have lately had.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

"Can the moon make rainbows at night?" asked the little girl. make what is called a lunar rainbow.

From Lady Mary and her Nurse by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland

The sky was singularly pure; there was no appearance of rain; and what struck me most was that this phenomenon, which perfectly resembled a lunar rainbow, was not in the direction opposite to the moon.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

That night, her spirit illumined by the unearthly glory of a lunar rainbow, Angela went to her room with a faint sense of anticlimax, in the discomfort she expected.

From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

The moon does sometimes, but very rarely, make what is called a lunar rainbow.

From In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland