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moonlighted

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English

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Etymology 1

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From moon +‎ lighted.[1]

Alternative forms

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Adjective

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moonlighted (not comparable)

  1. Illuminated by moonlight.
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1853, →OCLC:
      “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on []
    • 1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman[1], New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41:
      I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
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Etymology 2

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From moonlight +‎ -ed.

Verb

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moonlighted

  1. simple past and past participle of moonlight

References

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  1. ^ moonlighted, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.