sunshot
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌnʃɒt/
Adjective
sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)
- (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 91:
- Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:
- Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 91:
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