Usually means: Sunset's glow on mountain peaks.
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  1. alpenglow: Merriam-Webster
  2. alpenglow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alpenglow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alpenglow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Alpenglow, alpenglow: Wordnik
  6. alpenglow: Wiktionary
  7. alpenglow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. alpenglow: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Alpenglow, alpenglow: Dictionary.com
  10. Alpenglow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. alpenglow: FreeDictionary.org
  12. alpenglow: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. alpenglow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. alpenglow: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. alpenglow: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alpenglow: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alpenglow)

noun:  A rosy or reddish glow seen during sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow-covered mountains on the opposite side of the sun.

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