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foreglow

noun

Etymology

From fore- + glow.

  1. derived from *ǵʰleh₁-✻ — “to shine, glow; to be shining, glowing”
  2. inherited from *glōaną✻ — “to glow”
  3. derived from *glówa✻
  4. inherited from *glōan✻ — “to glow”
  5. inherited from glōwan — “to glow”
  6. inherited from glouen
  7. prefixed as foreglow — “fore + glow”

Definitions

  1. The glow of light appearing in the sky preceding sunrise.

    • He promised fair things and, when another morning came, set forth in the first rosy foreglow of dawn through a dew-soaked world to his new work.
    • Little attention has been paid to foreglows compared with afterglows, either with regard to their natural beauty or their weather forecasting.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA