sunburst

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  1. noun A sudden burst of sunlight, as through broken clouds.
  2. noun A pattern or design consisting of a central disk with radiating spires projecting in the manner of sunbeams.
  3. noun A jeweled brooch with such a design.

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  • Gideon Park bent over me, his broad black face gleaming with a smile like a sunburst. —  Pohl, Frederik ; Williamson, Jack - [Undersea 03] - Undersea City [MNQ]
  • It was the shape he often used to communicate with Rainbow, the Zaarain construct that looked like a sunburst of multicolored crystals. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 2 - Dancer's Luck (v1.0)
  • Lois Denham, duly the recipient of the sunburst which her friend Izzy had promised her, had unfortunately, in a spirit of girlish curiosity, taken it to a jeweller to be priced, and the jeweller had blasted her young life by declaring it a paste imitation. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Inclusions radiated from the center outward,, like a sunburst caught in ice. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • Fragments of Fracto fog shot out in an expanding sphere, jags of sundered lightning radiated out like a sunburst, and thunder crashed into the ground, bounced, and lay quiet. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
 

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