Today's Word "alpenglow"
Glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains
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alpenglow \AL-puhn-gloh\ (noun) - A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains.
"I sit down by the Hermit's Creek and eat chocolate bars and listen to the water, and then, when it is four hours till sundown, four hours till alpenglow, after the last of the buffalo have filed past with wan and weary smiles, I start up the trail." -- Rick Bass, 'Wild to the Heart'
Alpenglow is a partial translation of German Alpenglühen, from Alpen, "Alps" + glühen, "to glow."
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