Black
Black adjective - Being without light or without much light.
Usage example: on a black night such as this, the imagination runs wild
Moonlit
Moonlit adjective - Lighted by moonlight.
Both words in one sentence
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They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia.
Source: Lovecraft Country -
Also, Barbossa and his crew in their moonlit undead forms in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Source: Serkis Folk -
His latest production is the weirdly titled The Perilous Journey of a Boy Named Kutaro.On one dark, moonlit night, the star of the show, a young boy named Kutaro, is carried away by the maleficent Moon Bear King to a black castle, where the unlucky lad is transformed into a puppet.
Source: Video Game / Puppeteer
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