adazzle
adjEtymology From a- + dazzle.
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Illuminated so as to dazzle.
- 1832, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. LX, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 32, No. 190, February 1832, p. 281, […] let [a poet] speak of a man-of-war in a style that shows he knows a frigate from a three-decker, a cutter from a schooner […] , and Neptune shall be to him Apollo, the Nereids the Muses, and every line shall be a line of light—all a-dazzle with appropriate words, surcharged with the imagery of the great deep.
- The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle.1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Revolt in the Desert,, London: Jonathan Cape, page 76:
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- It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 72:
- By the time they entered Washington, it was dark and the lights of the city were all adazzle.2013, Brenda George, Song of the Shenandoah, page 147: