Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A rose or yellow glow in the sky preceding sunrise or following sunset.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A diffused hazy corona of whitish or faintly colored light seen around the sun.
  • noun The glow or warm light of the sun.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

Etymologies

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sun +‎ glow

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Examples

  • He can't find buyers anymore for "sunglow" boa constrictors, which sport an unnatural reddish-orange-and-off-white coloration, and fetched $3,000 two years ago.

    Bear Market in Boas: Proposed Laws Strangle Sales of Mutant Snakes Justin Scheck 2010

  • He can't find buyers anymore for "sunglow" boa constrictors, which sport an unnatural reddish-orange-and-off-white coloration, and fetched $3,000 two years ago.

    Bear Market in Boas: Proposed Laws Strangle Sales of Mutant Snakes Justin Scheck 2010

  • Slowly, however, I'm working towards my color in my shoes, most recently these adorable "sunglow" flats by Red Wing.

    What I learned from Clinton and Stacy (What if No One's Watching?) 2007

  • A sputtering light-ball of the size of a food pellet, it cast a circle of such intense brilliance on the metal ceiling that the sunglow illumination was dim by comparison.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2010

  • I do not really know exactly why, but the great tower, whose fluted shaft, dark red in the sunglow, shoots up some 270 feet into the air, did not appeal to me.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • Mystery and gloom, dark blue and starshine, doubt and feebleness alternate with the clear and shining, opal skies and sunglow, heroic ardor and the exultation of power.

    AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

  • Seating myself upon this pyramid, I spent some time that afternoon gazing through the autumn sunglow at the hazy Mesa Verde, while my mind rebuilt and shifted the scenes of the long, long drama in which Old Pine had played his part, and of which he had given us but a few fragmentary records.

    Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

  • The vintage light of Affonso Beato's cinematography producing sunglow yellow in California and glam grim blue in John Lindsay's New York helps set a mood of nostalgia for nostalgia, a yearning for youthful earnestness.

    Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2011

  • But this model is the only one in the world to feature a 'sunglow orange' paintjob.

    Auto Trader Full Feed editorial@autotrader.co.uk (Auto Trader Editorial 2010

  • "This just makes me furious," said Castor, who rides his lava red sunglow Harley Davidson

    IndyStar.com Top Stories 2010

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