earthlight
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of earthlight
Example Sentences
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Working from an observatory in Hawaii, scientists have for the first time measured the color of the moon's shadowed half, which is lit only by reflected earthlight.
From Slate • Jan. 17, 2014
A moon-based songwriter would have his troubles; an obvious rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the lunar night descends, the batteries should remain charged long enough for the camera to take a picture of the lunar landscape, faintly illuminated by earthlight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lunar landscape all around would, therefore, be bathed in what to him would be "earthlight," which of course takes the place there of what we call moonlight.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius
About him was the blackness of a fire-formed lithosphere, whose lighter veining and occasional ashy fields were made ghostly in the earthlight.
From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard
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