Both Uses
phosphorescence
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- We'd sit on the sea wall, and feel the cool air off the ocean, and watch the phosphorescence sparkle in the surf.†
p. 289.9 *
- I felt someone's bare breast, briefly—only once, and it was an accident—one warm night when we went swimming off the beach at Little Boar's Head and the phosphorescence, in my opinion, was especially seductive.†
p. 445.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(phosphorescence) a soft, dim glow that comes either from a chemical reaction in a living thing or from something that keeps glowing after the light shining on it is gone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)