glare
/ɡlɛɚ/ noun B2- An intense, blinding light.
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- A smooth, bright, glassy surface. · a glare of ice
- A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
Plural glares
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Peppino, put out the torch.” Peppino obeyed, and Franz and the count were in utter darkness, except that fifty paces in advance of them a reddish glare, more evident since Peppino had put out his torch, was visible along the wall.
When they were on, Dorothy could not take them off had she wished, but of course she did not wish to be blinded by the glare of the Emerald City, so she said nothing.
A brougham and pair of greys, under the glare of a gas-lamp, stood before the doctor’s door.
When they came into this glare each of them turned simultaneously to gaze upon the other’s face.
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