moonlight
(uncountable, also, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
Seen in the wild
It just arrived. It's not the P-Bandai one, but I am happy that my HG Turn A Gundam got its own Moonlight Butterfly wings. @tedsgundams.bsky.social @magikestral.bsky.social @bookwormlover.bsky.social @wolfelockheart.…
!!!! (PS The main thing, the only thing that matters is that it came out, yes? What would this photograph have looked like WITHOUT any moonlight?)
Moonlight Bondage Girls Visit Me After Bar Closing Substack buff.ly/13VAxRa Medium buff.ly/iSFJmFd #BDSM #Paranormal #Erotica #Bondage #Sisters
It's been 26 years, I'm exhausted and ready to concede. You really CAN'T fight the moonlight.
"Logs and Legs" https://sutosufo.com/l/209-forest-dangers [Forest Dangers :: Shadows among the trees.] Moonlight filters through the dense trees as the young barbarian crouches low, muscles tensed, his every movemen…
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(uncountable, also, attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, / Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade;
“It just arrived. It's not the P-Bandai one, but I am happy that my HG Turn A Gundam got its own Moonlight Butterfly wings. @tedsgundams.bsky.social @magikestral.bsky.social @bookwormlover.bsky.social @wolfelockheart.bsky.social @hivoltwriter.bsky.social”
— Bluesky· May 2026“!!!! (PS The main thing, the only thing that matters is that it came out, yes? What would this photograph have looked like WITHOUT any moonlight?)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Moonlight Bondage Girls Visit Me After Bar Closing Substack buff.ly/13VAxRa Medium buff.ly/iSFJmFd #BDSM #Paranormal #Erotica #Bondage #Sisters”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's been 26 years, I'm exhausted and ready to concede. You really CAN'T fight the moonlight.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"Logs and Legs" https://sutosufo.com/l/209-forest-dangers [Forest Dangers :: Shadows among the trees.] Moonlight filters through the dense trees as the young barbarian crouches low, muscles tensed, his every movement measured to avoid alerting the unseen monsters nearby. 🐺”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(countable, informal) Chiefly in to do a moonlight: .
It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, / Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade;
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— Bluesky· May 2026“Here's where you can peek at some of my Moonlight-festival exclusive merch as a little treat before Saturday night >:3c”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I looked at harem isekai and said... these cishet male protagonists are scum. What this genre needs is sapphic polyamory. The characters can be messy trash fires. But not rapey male wish fulfillment fantasies. And so Moonlight Hearts was Born! www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The Moonlight Hearts Books are roughly... 1/3 Sapphic Romance and Smut.. 1/3 Victorian Adventure/Horror... And 1/3 Ren dealing with her Shit. www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ECK Between the furrow’s breath and salt-thick air, the bog holds dark like turf against the hand; moonlight breaks its silver on the blackened tide, and speaks in Irish through the sea to land.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(uncountable, archaic) The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.
Let's go on a moonlight swim / Far away from the crowd / All alone upon the beach / Our lips and our arms / Close within each other's reach / We'll be on a moonlight swim
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