It was a beautiful contrast to see her beside her mistress, like a glittering star in attendance upon the pale and almost vanishing moonsickle.
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Moonsickle
//ˈmuːnˌsɪkl̩//
Synonyms for "moonsickle" (2 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 8 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- maansikkel noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Finnish
1 entries- kuunsirppi noun (thin crescent of the moon)
French
1 entries- croissant de lune noun (thin crescent of the moon)
German
1 entries- Mondsichel noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Italian
1 entries- falce di luna noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Latvian
1 entries- sirpis noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Persian
2 entries- داس زرین noun (thin crescent of the moon)
- داسهی ماه noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Swedish
1 entries- månskära noun (thin crescent of the moon)
Sample sentences
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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.
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Long after dark, when the moonsickle was near setting, two wagons full of old acquaintances from around the little water-front drug store, a few workers at the warehouses and some vets of old Company G like Clyde Winston gathered to charivari the new couple before the wedding tour up to Niagara Falls that the newspaper told about.
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The Jewish month was a lunar month having no less than twenty-nine and no more than thirty days. The first day of the month was determined from the new moon. Of course, the new moon is not visible, but one or two days after the new moon, a faintly glowing moon sickle appears.
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