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cold light
noun
- light emitted by a source that is not incandescent, as from a firefly.
cold light
noun
- light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cold light1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
Mr. Levi enters almost beside him; how white his big eyeballs gleam, as he steps in under the same cold light!
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As a rule a charge takes place just before dawn, when the gray cold light of morning is struggling up from the East.
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The Lost Soul was lifted old and solemn and gray in the cold light and shadow of the 68 night.
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Yet by the cold light of early morning, he had an unaccountable sensation of having been tricked.
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Miriam looked at him in silence, the cold light still in her face, and he repeated: "Give it up—give it up."
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