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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as moonlit.

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Examples

  • As you wandered through these fantastically illuminated grounds, the moon-lighted chateau throwing a rosy light from its long rows of windows, you would suddenly hear these ravishing voices stealing from the silence of some grove, or rising from boats upon the lake.

    Carmilla 2003

  • “But now the cast hath been made and the net hath been widely extended, And in the night the tunnies will dart through the moon-lighted waters.”

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Across the moon-lighted room he went to her with opened arms, and when she came to meet him and lifted her face he kissed her reverently.

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • And though a toast in society, and courted by the nobility of the old world, Alice Westmore remembered only a moon-lighted night when she told Cousin Tom good-bye.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • The moon-lighted ocean spread full and throbbing before her.

    Janet of the Dunes

  • The Gospeler stands confounded in his own doorway, with the defence thus strangely secured in his hand; and, looking up the moon-lighted road, sees Mr. BUMSTEAD, in the sun-bonnet, leaping high, at short intervals, over the numerous adders and cobras on his homeward way, like a thoroughbred hurdle-racer.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 Various

  • We walked swiftly across the moon-lighted open, and I had scant time for fear.

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • And in a moon-lighted room overlooking a fanfare of roofs, Erik Dorn whispered one night to Rachel,

    Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

  • Then she remembered -- a moon-lighted room ... "you have given me wings!"

    Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

  • By the power of an open window, a black square in the moon-lighted wall, the farmhouse took on the aspect of a man-trap.

    The Rover 1923

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