sunshot
adjUK /ˈsʌnʃɒt/
Etymology From sun + shot.
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Poetic Shot through with sunlight.
- Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 91:
- 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.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41: