daydawnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

day-dawn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 day-dawns)

1. (archaic) The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.

   Synonym: dawn

   • 1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52,^[1]

     […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815, page 247:

     At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door.

   • 1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], OCLC 868008434, canto XII, stanza 41, page 13:

     For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,