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dayrise en · NOUN

Etymology

From day + rise.

Meanings

1. (countable, poetic, uncountable) daybreak, dawn
   • Compared to such sentimentalism that dream of the million men rising up at the President's call between dayrise and dayfall appears like grim realism. 1917, Hermann Hagedorn, "The Spirit of Preparedness," Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, National Security League, Washington, D.C., January 25-27, 1917, pg. 138
   • We ate without talking and watched dayrise through frost-rimmed glass in the double-hung window. 2008, Barry Lopez, “Bear in the Road,”, in The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie, Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor, eds., University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 57:
   • 'Twas a fair sight to see her glide A constant shadow by the side Of her old Father ! At dayrise, With light feet and with sunny eyes, 1839, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Sisters.", The Poetical Works of Miss Landon, publ. by E.L. Carey and A. Hart, pg. 225

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