#532 fulgent

fulgent- shining, brilliantly; resplendent; gleaming

C15 from Latin fulgere to shine, flash

Uncharacteristically, he summoned his imagination instead, painting an ecstatic vision of the village under a fulgent canopy of stars and a crescent moon.

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