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Aurorean O Ror Ee Uhn O Rohr Adjective Belonging Dawn Latin Aurora

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aurorean /o-ROR-ee-uhn, o-ROHR-/
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Of or belonging to the dawn.

[From Latin aurora (dawn, goddess of the dawn). Earliest documented use: 1820.]

"The moon shone resplendently above us -- its splendid aureola seemed suffused with stolen aurorean light." - Pietros Maneos; The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos; Aesthete Press; 2012.

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