A streak or band of color that appears in the sky during dawn, especially the reddish or golden light of early morning.
A compound of 'dawn' and 'streak' (from Old English 'strice' meaning a line or mark). This poetic term combines two visual elements to describe the linear patterns of color during sunrise.
Meteorologists call it 'the belt of Venus,' but poets have always seen dawn's colored streaks as messages written in the sky—different languages independently created words for this painted moment.
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