Moonwake vs Moonglade - What's the difference?
moonwake | moonglade | Synonyms |
The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
(poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
:* Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.'' — Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''The Efficiency Expert , 1921
:* The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade , through which she glided handsomely.'' — Edmund Gilligan, ''Voyage of the Golden Hind , 1945
:* the new moon, descending, gave her a moonglade down which she sailed until moonset and plunged on into the darkness,'' — Edmund Gilligan, ''I Name Thee Mara , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946
:* a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean ...'' — Paul Anderson, ''Mirkieim , 1977
Moonglade is a synonym of moonwake.
As nouns the difference between moonwake and moonglade
is that moonwake is the reflection of moonlight on a body of water while moonglade is the bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.moonwake
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(en noun)- I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked ...'' — Daniel A. Goodsell, ''Nature and Character at Granite Bay , 1901
- And they grew and brightened and gathered; and whiles together they ran. Like the moonwake over the waters; and whiles they were scant and wan, ...'' — William Morris, ''The Story of Sigurd the Volsung , 1922
- Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the ''moonwake'' , because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.'' — The Atlantic, ''Word Fugitives , March, 2006