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"ref": "1896, James Wells, Travel-pictures from Palestine, page 94",
"text": "Often rainbows by night or moonbows span the lake.",
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"ref": "2011, Colleen Ryckert Cook, Kentucky: Past and Present, page 9",
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"(meteorology) A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours."
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"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "月虹"
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"word": "luna ĉielarko"
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"word": "arc-en-ciel lunaire"
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"word": "Mondregenbogen"
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"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "yuèhóng",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "月虹"
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{
"code": "eo",
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"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "luna ĉielarko"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "kuuvikerkaar"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "kuukaar"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "kuusateenkaari"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
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"word": "arc-en-ciel lunaire"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "Mondregenbogen"
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{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"tags": [
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"word": "arcobaleno lunare"
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"roman": "gekkō",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "月虹"
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"roman": "dalmujigae",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "달무지개"
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"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"tags": [
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"word": "regnbue av måneskinn"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúnnaja ráduga",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"tags": [
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"word": "лу́нная ра́дуга"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"tags": [
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"word": "arco lunar"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Meteorological phenomenon",
"word": "månregnbåge"
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"word": "moonbow"
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