| Front | lambent \LAM-buhnt\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering; a lambent flame; lambent shadows. 2. Softly bright or radiant; luminous; a lambent light. 3. Light and brilliant; a lambent style; lambent wit. [From Latin lambent, stem of lambens, present participle of lambere (to lick).] "What started sometime in 1999 like a lambent flame snowballed into a big political conflagration and consequently entered a new chapter last Thursday with the decision of a faction of the party to decamp to the Alliance for Democracy (AD)." - Tokunbo Adedoja; Plateau PDP: The Battle Enters a New Chapter; This Day (Lagos, Nigeria); May 27, 2002. "With that, he (Richard Hawley) launches into Baby, You're My Light, a grown-up love song of delicate beauty, featuring a lambent melody and a sonorous, deep vocal." - Alexis Petridis; Richard Hawley; The Guardian (London, UK); May 21, 2003. |
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