Moonsickle

Quick meaning: Moonsickle is a noun meaning (poetic) A thin crescent of the moon.

Meaning

(poetic) A thin crescent of the moon.

Example Sentences

It was a beautiful contrast to see her beside her mistress, like a glittering star in attendance upon the pale and almost vanishing moonsickle.

But the woman of leaves and flowers, clad in the shimmering cloak of forest-green, with the silver moonsickle brooch at her shoulder, was no longer with them.

I felt tranquilized while looking at it, as I do when the rosy clouds are fading into gray twilight, and the pale moon-sickle descends slowly behind the dim woods.

So Simeon ben Gamaliel did not fear that a Jew would worship an image of the sun or a moon-sickle on a common object like a water pot, but saw danger in a golden or silver moon-sickle which might be worn as a talisman, as he is quoted in self-explanation in the Gemara.

Word Forms

• moonsickles
• moon sickle
• moon-sickle

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lunette, lune, lunule, crescent, moon-calf, moonchild.

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