sunshot

English

Etymology

From sun + shot.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌnʃɒt/

Adjective

sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)

  1. (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 91:
      Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 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.

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