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- noun Plural form of
sundog .
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Examples
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You could be right but I have taken alot of sunrise and sunset pictures and even just lots with the sunshining behind clouds I have many pictures with what you called the sundogs but I still feel this was a rainbow as there was snow percipitation and this was the full spectrum of colors as with a rainbow and it was viewable from several angles.
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You could be right but I have taken alot of sunrise and sunset pictures and even just lots with the sunshining behind clouds I have many pictures with what you called the sundogs but I still feel this was a rainbow as there was snow percipitation and this was the full spectrum of colors as with a rainbow and it was viewable from several angles.
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A similar phenomenon is "sundogs" - a pair of very bright spots on opposite sides of a halo, so bright that they wash out the rest of the circle.
Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2009
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Mike Simonsen posts a really pretty picture of sundogs!
This weekend's tidbits... Nicole 2009
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Mike Simonsen posts a really pretty picture of sundogs!
Archive 2009-03-02 Nicole 2009
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But I don't recall ever seeing sundogs from above before.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006
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Now, sundogs are pretty common in our country in winter.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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When I crawled out in the mornings (this had to be accomplished backward) and twisted around on my sunken front path, I looked up and blinked at a pair of pale sundogs, bright spots near the sun formed by the diffraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere and joined by a circular rainbow.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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If I remember my history, these things were being dismissed as weather balloons, sundogs, explainable things -- at least publicly.
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The goblets rose and clove their way into the sky, a triplet of radiant sundogs, and disappeared.
The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916
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