noon of night

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English

Noun

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

12 a.m., noon; see also Thesaurus:midnight

References

“noon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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