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noon of night en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic, poetic) midnight
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;
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:'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still,
Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.
1806, George Gordon Byron, Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country:Of sunken suns at eve – at noon of night,
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light
1833, Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf:
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Synonyms
noon · 12 a.m.