new words – coruscant

This one made me think of crepuscular, but it is almost the reverse of that, closer to lucent.

Coruscant – shining, brilliant

Still in The Orchard Keeper, only a couple pages from the previous post. Here is the sentence:

“Through the leaves of the hardwoods he could see the zinc-colored roof of the church faintly coruscant and a patch of boarded siding weathered the paper-gray of a waspnest.”

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