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moonbeam

[moon-beem]
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noun
  1. a ray of moonlight.
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Origin of moonbeam

First recorded in 1580–90; moon + beam
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Examples from the Web for moonbeam

Historical Examples

  • Ah, little Dear-my-Soul, you know—you know whereof the moonbeam spake.

    A Little Book of Profitable Tales

    Eugene Field

  • She had been chosen for the angel, I suppose, because she was as pale and sweet as a moonbeam.

    My Double Life

    Sarah Bernhardt

  • A moonbeam rested on her loosened hair and her dress that was torn to tatters.

    Sacrifice

    Stephen French Whitman

  • I'm to be in the first big number, I think—one of the Moonbeam girls.

    Torchy and Vee

    Sewell Ford

  • How lovely he was, this moonbeam babe, so white, so gentle and dark-haired.

British Dictionary definitions for moonbeam

moonbeam

noun
  1. a ray of moonlight
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Word Origin and History for moonbeam

n.

1580s, from moon (n.) + beam (n.).

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