starbathe

English

Etymology

star +‎ bathe, modelled on sunbathe.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪð

Verb

starbathe (third-person singular simple present starbathes, present participle starbathing, simple past and past participle starbathed)

1. (intransitive) To expose one's body to starlight in order to relax, or in the belief that it has positive effects. (Compare sunbathe.)
   • 2001, William Guy, Gravity's Revolt: Part Four: Part Four, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 136:

     ... even though we were not sure what we would find at the top of it (another troop of nude women starbathing this time? was it perhaps even the same set of steps which we had climbed a few days back and didn't recognize now in the dark?)

   • 2002, Terri Brown-Davidson, The Carrington Monologues, →ISBN:

     And I glanced at her and smiled, my face still flushed from starbathing beneath that rampaging, black-hot sky; […]

   • 2013, Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet: A Novel, Picador, →ISBN:

     The stars are all out, sending their indecipherable messages. Starlight, starbright. Debbie comes out into the garden and asks us what on earth we are doing out here in the dark and Charles says, 'Starbathing.'

   • 2016, Robin Esrock, The Great Global Bucket List, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 43:

     […] to starbathe beneath the glittering Milky Way.