sunglow

American  

[suhn-gloh] / ˈsʌnˌgloʊ /

noun

1. a diffused, hazy light seen around the sun, caused by atmospheric dust.

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sunglow British  

/ ˈsʌnˌɡləʊ /

noun

1. a pinkish glow often seen in the sky before sunrise or after sunset. It is caused by scattering or diffraction of sunlight by particles in the atmosphere

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Etymology

Origin of sunglow

First recorded in 1835–45; sun + glow

Example Sentences

Herbie killed the motor, and they both remained immobile for a moment, grinning stupidly through the windshield at the lovely stream and at the golden sunglow on pine tree tips rising along the slope beyond.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I was a child, and asked him if it was a white dove, such as I had seen fanning the sunglow in Icolmkill.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

I do not really know exactly why, but the great tower, whose fluted shaft, dark red in the sunglow, shoots up some 270 feet into the air, did not appeal to me.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

Mystery and gloom, dark blue and starshine, doubt and feebleness alternate with the clear and shining, opal skies and sunglow, heroic ardor and the exultation of power.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William