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prettygoodwordgleen (GLEEN) - n., a gleam of sunlight.
Older unabridged dictionaries also have the obsolete sense of a glistening/gleaming, but this sense is still in use (if rarely) in North England and Scotland. Attested from the 1650s, and may be older as it's probably it’s probably related to an earlier Scandinavian word, glene, meaning a clear patch of sky.
---L.
Older unabridged dictionaries also have the obsolete sense of a glistening/gleaming, but this sense is still in use (if rarely) in North England and Scotland. Attested from the 1650s, and may be older as it's probably it’s probably related to an earlier Scandinavian word, glene, meaning a clear patch of sky.
---L.
