Ashimmer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ashimmer is an adjective meaning Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
Meaning
Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
Example Sentences
The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.
resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate
The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.
1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65, […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shimmery, glimmery, glimmersome, glistering, silvery, glittering.
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