night-sunn.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 42^v They are lykewyse Images of the Moone, represented in an equall cloude, which is watry, smothe, and polyshed, even lyke a glasse. Some call them..night sunnes, because they ioyned with the light of the true Moone, geue a great shynning light.

1592 H. Constable Diana ii. sig. B2 Earthlie vapors drawne up by the Sunne, Comets begun, and night-sunnes in the skie.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xxxii. 18 Three Moones also appeared at once..which most men called Night-Sunnes.

1629 F. Hubert Hist. Edward II 18 But are there not sweet pleasures for the night? Maskes, Revels, Banquets, mirthfull Comedies, Night-Sunnes, (kind Natures dearest Prodigies) Which worke in men with powerfull Influence.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ix. 111 The moon, the Night-Sun, eastward, Suddenly, starting from his ambush.

1893 R. F. Burton Meccah (new ed.) I. 209 The white visage of the night-sun [1855 moon].

1968 Current Anthropol. 9 169/2 Some languages have a single term which means either ‘sun’ or ‘major heavenly body’ (i.e. ‘sun’ or ‘moon’), while ‘moon’ may be designated by the marked phrase ‘night-sun’.]