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

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

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

At each point of contact occurs a parhelion which is a mock sun of brilliant colors and called a sun-dog.

From Reading the Weather by Longstreth, Thomas Morris

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

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

"It is a mock sun," exclaimed my father.

From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Emerson, Willis George