What is "sunbursts"

Usage examples of "sunbursts".

The third machine, very unlike the other two in its massive, obvious immobility, was nothing more than a towering, coffin shaped leaden cabinet, surmounted by a great branching tangle of interlocking rods, wires, coils, glass and metallic sunbursts, from the midst of which a pair of straight, needle-pointed spikes thrust like great black horns.

When the glass sunbursts glowed with sudden light, his jaw sagged and his little eyes popped.

The luminosity playing upon the glass whorls and sunbursts intensified.

The luminosity of her glass sunbursts mounted, but the glow was soft and warm.

He passed stalls faced with turquoise Formica, fake brick, fragments of broken tile worked into swirls and sunbursts and flowers.