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white rainbow

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noun

  1. another name for fogbow

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Well, that's the first time I ever saw a white rainbow," said Graeme to the captain.

From Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham

Once, in riding to Sengmai on a misty morning, I saw a white rainbow rising from the ground; a fine and weird sight it was.

From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone

The man told me that at night the moon forms a white rainbow on the hill.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve

Indoors she appeared with her hair divided by a parting that arched like a white rainbow from ear to ear.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Thompson has scaled the white rainbow of the night, and sits in radiant company among the first planetary strummers of song.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

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