parhelion

• The sundog, the parhelic circle and the 120 degree parhelion: and the 120 degree parhelion shining brightly. —  Jonstraveladventures
• For all the baleful-looking parhelion, god Apollo dispenses the day. —  The Confidence-Man
• 120 degree parhelion, something I'd never seen before. —  Jonstraveladventures
• During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard. —  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
• I shall therefore suppose that there was some natural appearance, perhaps a parhelion, the cause of which Constantine did not fully understand, and, from the appearance in the sky around it, his fancy, aided by superstition, painted to his imagination the supposed cross, as also the Greek words, which being pointed out to the soldiers they might easily imagine the same, or, if they did not, would not like to oppose the opinion of their general. —  A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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