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Phosphor

[fos-fer, -fawr] / ˈfɒs fər, -fɔr /
NOUN
morning star
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Furthermore, one of the mobile developers in the Partners programme, Phosphor Games, is creating an action fantasy title named Horn, clearly aimed at the dedicated gaming audience.

From The Guardian Aug. 2, 2012

The ancients called it Lucifer and Phosphor when it shone as a morning star before sunrise, and Hesperus and Vesper when it became visible after sunset.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

Lucifer and Phosphor have been our cats for the last ten years: Lucifer, entirely black, Phosphor, as yellow as saffron, a real golden fleece.

From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Winslow, Helen M.

The sun set late; but hardly had he gone When o'er the moon's gold-litten crescent there, Clean Phosphor, polished as a precious stone, Pulsed in fair deeps of air.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

Pythagoras is said to have been the first to identify Hesperus with Phosphor, as the "Silver planet both of eve and morn," and by Plato the same fact is recognized.

From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Holden, Edward Singleton




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