noon of night
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]noon of night (plural noons of night)
- (poetic, archaic) midnight
- 1700, John Dryden, “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;
- 1806, George Gordon Byron, Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country:
- 'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still,
Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.
- 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf:
- Of sunken suns at eve – at noon of night,
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light
Synonyms
[edit]- 12 a.m., noon; see also Thesaurus:midnight
References
[edit]- “noon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.