noon of night

English

Noun

noon of night (plural noons of night)

  1. (poetic, obsolete) midnight
    1700, Dryden, John, “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, lines 213–216:
    When full before him, at the noon of night,
    (The moon was up, and shot a gleamy light)
    He saw a quire of ladies in a round,
    That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground;

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for noon of night under noon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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