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Feb. 03, 2016
alpenglow \AL-puh n-gloh\ noun
1. a reddish glow often seen on the summits of mountains just before
sunrise or just after sunset.
Quotes Now came the solemn, silent evening. Long, blue, spiky shadows
crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce
discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top,
flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the
alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial
manifestations of God.
-- John Muir, The Mountains of California, 1894 Origin Alpenglow comes
from the German word Alpenglühen in which the first element, Alpen,
refers to the Alps, and the second element, glühen, means "to glow."
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