starlight

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The moon set; the starlight was after a long, long time succeeded by the dawn of waking birds, and of waking city, too--for up from below rose an ever louder roar like a rising storm.

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  1. noun The light from the stars.

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  • One of the large courts of the palace was illuminated: the starlight was above us, the blaze of wax lights and chandeliers lit up every hall around the court, and coloured lamps and flowers were everywhere. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • With just a bit of faint starlight, a soldier wearing the goggles in darkness can see as though it's practically daytime. —  Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
  • Kepler's telescope will work by detecting starlight, and analyzing minute changes in brightness in the galaxy while scanning space for planets like Earth. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Hartnett has developed models to explain the creation of the 'heavens' during the creation week; these models offer an answer to the question, "how can we see distant starlight, that is supposedly million of light-years away, in a young universe, which the Bible infers is only 6,000 years old?" —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Never to see the moonlight or the starlight--never to see your face The specialist has given me a few months--and then darkness Was it selfishness to want to tie you to a blind man? —  Mistress Anne
 

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/ˈstɑrlaɪt/
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