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  • noun Plural form of moonbow.

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Examples

  • TYRANNASAURUS: They;re called moonbows...because they're not caused by rain because it's kLK1f2sCa7m90DMhto7%2FSxK6z0jIpyVR8Sr7VYQRFLoqgWKrVhw9zml1g12DaG7aWriJZu4gjjbsge5kY6g6m1MvILYTc7Fm rachelsklar

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • If this all doesn't blow your mind, check out some moonbows to be stunned for sure.

    Quadruple Rainbow PHOTO: Phenomenon Captured On Camera For The First Time (POLL) 2011

  • Cahill is one of the few who have seen rare moonbows, petrified forests and odd faces in the hoodoo formations while walking the outback.

    Lost In My Own Backyard (copy) ____Maggie 2007

  • Cahill is one of the few who have seen rare moonbows, petrified forests and odd faces in the hoodoo formations while walking the outback.

    Archive 2007-05-01 ____Maggie 2007

  • Near Tennessee, there was a waterfall with one of only two moonbows in the world.

    Gail McGowan Mellor: The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds 2009

  • The air filling the en-closing semicircle of the falls was further thickened by an up rushing mist that looked like steam; in it half a dozen moonbows gleamed like gaudy, interlocking dream-jewelry.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • They are inside the wizard's glass, they are inside the pink storm (those pink halos revolving around the light fixtures re-mind Jake of The Falls of the Hounds, and the moonbows revolving in the mist), and this is happening all over again.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • They still hung above the moon-misty drop, the moonbows still made their slow and dreamlike revolutions before the cur-tain of endlessly falling water, the wet and brutal stone faces of the dog-guardians continued to jut out of the torrent, but that world-ending thunder was gone.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • But those who are aware of the rare spectacle know that one of the greatest places in the world to experience it is in moonbows' are created by the light of the moon, making them best viewed during a full moon.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • "As the last of the miniature moonbows faded from sight, he saw that not only was it no longer damp -- it was no longer night.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

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