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sunshot - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sunshot'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Shot through with sunlight.
  • *1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 91:
  • *:Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.
  • *1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:
  • *:Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.