Meanings
moonlighted1
adjectivemoonlighted (not comparable)
alternative moon-lighted
- not comparableIlluminated by moonlight.
I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 411 more example
“It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]”
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
moonlighted2
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of moonlight
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