Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rainbowlike display of colors resulting from refraction of sunlight through a spray of water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An iris formed by the refraction of light on the spray of cataracts, or on any rising vapor.
Wiktionary
- n. The equivalent of a rainbow caused by refraction through a spray of water from a fountain etc, rather than through droplets of rain
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rainbow; an iris.
Examples
“Below arose the mist, on which was painted a dazzling sunbow with two concentric shadows, -- one, almost as perfect as the original brightness; and the other, drawn faintly round the broken edge of the cloud.”
“As a sunbow laughs and is lost on the waves that range220”
“After a pause, the WITCH OF THE ALPS rises beneath the arch of the sunbow of the torrent.”
“As a sunbow laughs and is lost on the waves that range”
“A bright sunbow stood over the torrent, which, seen from below, has the appearance of a luminous white arch bending from rock to rock.”
“After a pause, the_ WITCH OF THE ALPS _rises beneath the arch of the sunbow of the torrent.”
“When I take up my pen to record the impressions of the day, I sometimes turn within myself, and wonder how it is possible that amid the strife of feelings not all subdued, and the desponding of the heart, the mind should still retain its faculties unobscured, and the imagination all its vivacity and its susceptibility to pleasure, -- like the beautiful sunbow I saw at the Falls of Terni, bending so bright and so calm over the verge of the abyss which toiled and raged below.”
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