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Day-Glo|ˈdeɪgləʊ|
Also day-glo, dayglo, dayglow, etc.
[f. day n. + glow n. or v.1]
1. A proprietary name for a make of fluorescent paint or other colouring matter; also (transf.) applied attrib. to the vivid colours characteristic of Day-Glo paints, as Day-Glo orange, etc.
1951Trade Marks Jrnl. 3 Oct. 917/1 Day-Glo B 698,104. Pigments and fluorescent coating materials (in the nature of paint). Dane & Co., Limited, 1 and 2, Sugar House Lane, Stratford, London, E.15; Manufacturers. 1952Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Jan. 662/1 Switzer Brothers Inc., Cleveland, Ohio... Day-Glo... For oil paints, water colors, [etc.]. 1963Punch 19 June 884/2 Sailing ladies can wear..day-glo vermilion jackets. 1968Sunday Times 14 Apr. 15 The George Mitchell Choir, greasepaint and day-glo and soft-shoe, was hamming it up on the jetty. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vii. 132, I walked down the narrow stairs, painted day-glo orange and decorated by crude paintings of Pop cult figures. 1969Listener 24 Apr. 578/2 Sitting at home painting the trees with Dayglo. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) iv. 169 He..came at last to a stairway. Day-Glo-orange arrows pointed down. 1984J. Archer First among Equals (1985) ii. 21 Sitting on his own in the corner of a room decorated with wilting balloons and day-glo orange crêpe paper.
2. attrib.
a. Chiefly of garments: made with a material which incorporates Day-Glo colouring; painted or marked with Day-Glo. Hence loosely, fluorescent.
1959P. B. Abercrombie Little Difference vi. 108 The day-glo socks of the innumerable little girls. 1967Bahamas Handbk. & Businessmen's Ann. (ed. 7) 52 There was..an undisclosed number of cloth ‘dayglo’ markers in geometric shapes. 1976Punch 11 Aug. 210/2 Through the near-impenetrable soup of brine there shone an irridescent dot, pinpointing the blundering shark by the day-glo vest it had snagged on its mighty dorsal fin. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 130/1 You disappear..in a car trailing balloons and shoes, wreathed in squirts of synthetic day-glo spaghetti (the new confetti). 1986A. Clampitt What Light was Like iv. 75 The lit night glares like a day-glo strawberry.
b. fig.
1968Listener 19 Sept. 380/3 The energetic vulgarity of Jack Cardiff's filming—day-glow flashes for ecstasy and orgasm—has to be seen to be believed. 1974A. Lurie War between Tates (1977) xvi. 347 Erica flops back..laughing with delight at Zed, whose arms and torso shine with a watery day-glo light. |