Theſe dangerous, vnſafeLunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall[…]
1851 July–December,Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, inPunch, volume XXI,page217:
A mad world this, my friends, a world in itslunes, petty and other; inlunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
(geometry) A concave figure formed by the intersection of thearcs of twocircles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
1984, Thomas Pynchon,Slow Learner:
What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the emptylunes of his tiny sphere.
And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longelunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / thelunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge
