mock sun

American  

noun

1. parhelion.

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mock sun British  

noun

1. another name for parhelion

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Example Sentences

There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears as a "mock sun" that offers light but no heat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun, which was barely clear of the horizon, was itself a deep red, on either side and above it was a red mock sun and a rainbow-tinted halo connected the three mock suns.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

The Banks Islanders make sunshine by means of a mock sun.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

Archimedes had, according to Apuleius, treated of the rainbow and the mock sun in connexion with his researches into mirrors.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

"It is a mock sun," exclaimed my father.

From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Emerson, Willis George