moonglade

plural moonglades

1. poeticrareThe bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.

   a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean

   1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim

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   Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty. The reflected lane of light supplies what the mind craves in a picture—a path that seems to lead to some place of unknown and longed-for happiness […]

   1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232

   Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.

   1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert

   The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely.

   1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind

   Synonyms: moonwake