Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A faint white or yellowish arc-shaped light, similar to a rainbow, that sometimes appears in fog opposite the sun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A faintish white arch seen in fog, similar to the rainbow, and due to the action of the same causes, the globules of water of the fog playing the same part as the raindrops.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nebulous arch, or bow, of white or yellowish light sometimes seen in fog, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun meteorology A
white arc orcircle , similar to arainbow , which can appear in thesky infoggy conditions assunlight passes through smallairborne water droplets .
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After each stop, I break out of the rolling fog to a bright fogbow. and drive west with the fog rolling behind.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008
reesetee commented on the word fogbow
Like this. Also called a seadog.
September 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word fogbow
That is lovely!
September 25, 2007