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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

coruscating

dictionary.com:
cor·us·cate
intr.v. cor·us·cat·ed, cor·us·cat·ing, cor·us·cates

1. To give forth flashes of light; sparkle and glitter: diamonds coruscating in the candlelight.
2. To exhibit sparkling virtuosity: a flutist whose music coruscated throughout the concert hall.



From: The Epicur's Lament, Kate Christensen, p 29

"Octobe 14- I awoke just now, shattered from a pain-spiked dream, to a windy, leaf-blown, coruscating autumn day, sunlight embelishing charcoal clouds and glinting off the cold steel-dark river..."

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