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moonlight

1 noun
     
moon‧light1 [uncountable]
1 the light of the moon
in the moonlight
The water looked silver in the moonlight.
pale/silver moonlight
The hills were bathed in pale moonlight.
by moonlight
We dined by moonlight.
2

do a moonlight (flit)

British English to leave a place secretly in the middle of the night in order to avoid paying money that you owe:
They did moonlight flits from one awful apartment to another.
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