sunlit

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English

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From sun +‎ lit.

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sunlit (comparative more sunlit, superlative most sunlit)

  1. Illuminated by sunlight.
    • 1907 August, Robert W Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 282:
      "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. [James Abbott McNeill] Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; []."

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