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dayshield

noun

Etymology

From day + shield. Compare also Old English dæġsċeald (“dayshield, screen”) of identical formation.

  1. derived from *(s)kelH-✻ — “cut, split”
  2. inherited from *skelduz✻ — “shield”
  3. inherited from *skeldu✻
  4. inherited from scield — “shield”
  5. inherited from scheld
  6. compounded as dayshield — “day + shield”

Definitions

  1. A protection from daylight

    A protection from daylight; a screen

    • The lamps overhead were beginning to dim; in a few minutes, the dayshields would slide back, revealing the transparent canopy and allowing the remote suns to peer in—dispassionate observers hidden behind the veils of distance.
    • Caleb continued to hold his gaze until the familiar grating of the dayshields lowering diverted his attention back over to the terrace doors.
    • The shelter of the day-shield moved across the heavens; the wise Lord had covered over the path of the sun with a sail in such a way that men dwelling on earth could not detect the mast-ropes, […]

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