sunbright

English

Etymology

sun +‎ bright

Adjective

sunbright (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Full of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
      And with our Sun-bright armour as we march,
      Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies
      That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.
    • 1868, “The Sunbright Clime”, in Jessie Oglethorpe: or The Story of a Daughter's Devotion and Other Tales, page 301:
      Have you heard, have you heard of the sunbright clime,
      Undimmed by sorrow, unhurt by time;
      Where age hath no power o'er the fadeless frame,
      Where the eye is fire and the heart is flame —
      Have you heard of that sunbright clime?
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