Definition of "Phosphor"

Phosphor

proper noun
1. Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”)
  Quotations
  All night no ruder air perplex⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright⁠As our pure love, thro’ early lightShall glimmer on the dewy decks.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto IX
  Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus, […]
  1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 518