rayonnant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Adjective

rayonnant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Darting forth rays like those of the sun.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rayonnant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Verb

rayonnant

1. present participle of rayonner

Adjective

rayonnant (feminine rayonnante, masculine plural rayonnants, feminine plural rayonnantes)

1. radiant, effulgent, gleaming

Further reading

• “rayonnant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.