noonlight

English

Etymology

noon +‎ light

Noun

noonlight (uncountable)

1. The full sunlight that occurs at noon.
   • 1838 March, “To Mihri, By Rahiki, Native of Constantinople”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 11, number 63, page 300:

     My starlight, my moonlight, my midnight, my noonlight, Unveil not, unveil not, or millions must pine.

   • 2008, Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men:

     The shadows showed up what brilliant noonlight couldn't see.

   • 2011, Randy Boyagoda, Beggar's Feast:

     The bull stepped around the crumpled body like a dainty lady avoiding a mud puddle, its tail swishing at heat and all the greenflies gathering in its wake, their own bodies flashing in the noonlight like a shattered gemstone tossed up in the heavy harbour air that would be Sam's last breath of Ceylon for ten years.