moonlight

moonlight
{{11}}moonlight (n.) "light of the moon," mid-14c., from MOON (Cf. moon) (n.) + LIGHT (Cf. light) (n.).
{{12}}moonlight (v.) "hold a second job, especially at night," 1957 (implied in moonlighting), from moonlighter (1954), from the notion of working by the light of the moon; see MOONLIGHT (Cf. moonlight) (n.). Related: Moonlighting. Earlier the word had been used to mean "commit crimes at night" (1882).

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