Day-Glon.adj.

1944 Industr. Canada Apr. 176/2 (advt.) Four paints for all purposes... ‘Day-Glo’. A durable gloss or semi-gloss finish that reflects light in rooms by brightening ceilings and walls.

1944 Canad. Patent Office Rec. 14 Nov. p. iii Day-Glo... Dyed fabrics, papers, advertising matter, plastics and containers, all of which incorporate or are treated with..materials to increase brightness, visibility at a distance or colour distinguishability... Robert Charles Switzer, Cleveland, Ohio... Date of registration: 28th August, 1944. Date of first use: 21st August, 1944.

1951 Life 1 Oct. 126 (advt.) ‘Old MacDonald’ gleams in day-glo on the polo of this fine two piece knit suit.

1951 Trade 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.

1952 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Jan. 662/1 Switzer Brothers Inc., Cleveland, Ohio... Day-Glo... For oil paints, water colors, [etc.].

1968 Sunday Times 14 Apr. 15 The George Mitchell Choir, greasepaint and day-glo and soft-shoe, was hamming it up on the jetty.

1984 Times 27 June 10/6 The army had thoughtfully aerosoled my wellingtons in lurid dayglo.

1999 Muzik June 68/1 A mass of boys with crazy colour hair, flashing digital T-shirts, cuddly toys and day-glo are up on the stage.

1949 Billboard 18 June 63/3 (advt.) Two new advertising mediums are being used to hypo the attendance. Tried for the first time this year are Day-Glo advertising cards on the front of Denver streetcars.

1959 P. B. Abercrombie Little Difference vi. 108 The day-glo socks of the innumerable little girls.

1967 Bahamas Handbk. & Businessmen's Ann. (ed. 7) 52 There was..an undisclosed number of cloth ‘dayglo’ markers in geometric shapes.

1982 A. Barr & P. 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).

1986 A. Clampitt What Light was Like iv. 75 The lit night glares like a day-glo strawberry.

2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 98/1 His wife Françoise, dressed in a casual Day-Glo sarong, tries to rub suncream on his nose as he goes.

1951 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/5 (advt.) Select from all rayon or all wool, in solid colors or fancy new patterns, also the new Day Glo colors.

1951 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 28 Nov. 12/4 (advt.) Spun-nylon anklets For men in day-glo red, orange, green, yellow.

1968 A. 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.

1974 D. Norden in F. Muir & D. Norden Upon my Word! 68 ‘Hi, new neighbours!’ it read, in day-glo colours.

2007 J. Mansell Thinking of You xiii. 95 ‘Wow. They're, like, really old,’ giggled a skinny girl in a day-glo pink boob tube.

1968 Listener 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.

1974 A. 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.

2011 M. W. Phelps Love her to Death xx. 105 Yet luminol could reveal blood hidden in plain sight. Little mist here, a bit over there, and boom!—there it is, like invisible ink—that Day-Glo light indicating the presence of plasma.