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单词 starbeam
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starbeamn.

Brit. /ˈstɑːbiːm/, U.S. /ˈstɑrˌbim/
Forms: see star n.1 and beam n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: star n.1, beam n.1
Etymology: < star n.1 + beam n.1
A ray of starlight.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11435 Þei follewed on þe sterre beme [Vesp., Gött. o þis stern þe leme] Til þei coom to Ierusalem.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1408 (MED) This Lord..was..Shewed to thre kynges bi a sterre bem.
1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin ii. 10 The moone should receiue light of the sunne: and of the light starre beames.
1649 P. Sterry Commings Forth of Christ Ep. Ded. sig. aa4 Star-beams point to the Bride-groom of the Skie.
1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job iii. 11 Shut every Starbeam out from Mortals Sight.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in T. Chatterton Poems p. xxviii Like Star-beam on the rude sequester'd Tide, Lone-glittering.
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 57 On a star-beam I have ridden.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. 11 The immeasurable difference between the star-beam and the noon-tide splendour.
1947 K. Tynan Let. 1 Jan. (1994) ii. 138 All the mocking arrows of rain-sleet and star-beams pointed to me and said: ‘Waste! Waste! Waste!’
2013 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 26 Apr. Spread out into its rainbow of colours under a spectroscope, each starbeam includes a unique fingerprint involving hundreds of shadow lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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