aflash

English

Etymology

a- +‎ flash

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈflæʃ/

Adjective

aflash (not comparable)

  1. Flashing.
    • 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 43, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court‎, New York: Charles L. Webster, pages 553-554:
      Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash. Yes, it was a fine sight; I hadn’t ever seen anything to beat it.
    • 1976, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 4, in Triton‎, New York: Bantam, page 152:
      From the ceiling a screen folded down, its face aflash with myriad numbers, grids, and graphs.
    • 1980, Don DeLillo (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Part 2, Chapter 8, pp. 171-172,
      He stroked his small, dark, squarish jaw, and lit up a cigarette, although the no smoking light had been aflash for at least fifteen minutes.
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