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Sunburst

noun
1.
A sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds.
2.
A design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it.
3.
A jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun.



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"Sunburst" Quotes from Famous Books



... monkey, with its venerable looking black face fringed with a sunburst of white hair, would be tied to an old umbrella of the Sairey Gamp pattern, and would sit upon it as the small boy carried it along the trails on his shoulder, like a musket. Sometimes when the sun was strong the umbrella would be raised to shield the monkey's eyes, ...
— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon
... him with her keen dark eyes, read these thoughts as if his brain had been a printed page before her, and in spite of herself laughed outright; in his very teeth—a merry little peal as spontaneous as a sunburst. ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... entrance to this magnificent temple. In the ceiling is a sunburst with a seven-pointed star, which illuminates it. From this are the entrances leading to the auditorium, the "Mother's Room," and ...
— Pulpit and Press • Mary Baker Eddy
... at his entrance had somewhat subsided, the three took up their parable, but it was not the parable of the play. They used dialogue not in the original. It had a significance which the audience were not slow to appreciate, and went far to turn The Sunburst Trail at this point into a comedy-farce. When this new dialogue began, O'Ryan could scarcely trust his ears ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... about him. His eyelids were red. His face had the doughy look of one whose sleep has been brief and feverish. As he came toward his mother you noticed a stain on his coat, and a sunburst of wrinkles across one leg ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various


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