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Noun
night-sky (plural night-skies)
- Alternative form of night sky
1863, [George Alfred Lawrence], Border and Bastille, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, pages 115–116:I was riding slowly up a low, steep hill, about ten miles from Newmarket (I think the two or three houses are dignified by the name of Rockville), when I saw the indistinct forms of several horses, and the taller figure of one mounted man, standing out against the clear night-sky on the very crest of the ascent.
1887, T[homas] K[elly] Cheyne, “Is Job a Hebræo-Arabic Poem?”, in Job and Solomon; or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., page 100:Or that his interest in astronomy was not deepened by the spectacle of a night-sky in Arabia?
1890, S[abine] Baring-Gould, Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor, New York, N.Y.: United States Book Company, page 294:It was not visible in the grey night-sky, and was still for a minute;