mock sun

American  

noun

1. parhelion.

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mock sun British  

noun

1. another name for parhelion

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Example Sentences

There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears as a "mock sun" that offers light but no heat.

From Time Magazine Archive

And was he only a mock sun swimming in a firmament of glories which he could have outshone?

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

Beyond that again is a lens which throws an enlarged image of the aperture on the screen, which we may call our mock sun.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.

There was a mock sun on either side of the real sun.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

The Banks Islanders make sunshine by means of a mock sun.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir