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Grammar : Adj
Spell : lam-buh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæm bənt



Définition of lambent

Origin :
  • 1640s, from figurative use of Latin lambentem (nominative lambens), present participle of lambere "to lick," from PIE root *lab-, indicative of smacking lips or licking (cf. Greek laptein "to sip, lick," Old English lapian "to lick, lap up, suck;" see lap (v.1)).
  • adj luminous
Example sentences :
  • Just as we were parting at the door, Helen turned full on me her great, lambent eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • A sudden tremor seemed to shake the lambent flame that had lured him on.
  • Extract from : « Flip: A California Romance » by Bret Harte
  • Venus flamed a lambent disk of pale saffron, low over the horizon.
  • Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
  • This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet."
  • Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • Their eyes are luminous and lambent, but it is a melancholy light.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV » by Various
  • Every now and then there would come a lambent flash of lightning.
  • Extract from : « The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner » by Wilbur Lawton
  • She smiled again in that lambent heat-lightning way of hers.
  • Extract from : « Command » by William McFee
  • Madame's gray eyes, full of lambent fires, looked into his own.
  • Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath
  • Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played.
  • Extract from : « Brood of the Witch-Queen » by Sax Rohmer
  • The Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone » by Richard Bonner

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