eveningtide

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1. archaicpoeticuncountableSynonym of evening.

   “[…] I’d love to see you in the surf at eveningtide, with the sun behind you like an enormous, succulent orange.”

   2015, James Lee Burke, House of the Rising Sun, →ISBN, page 426

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   And behold at euening tide trouble, and before the morning he is not: this is the portion of them that spoile vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 17:14

   A walk in the dull and waning light of a winter’s afternoon, enabled these lonely children to return to their writing at eveningtide with new zeal, and while the wind sang its requiem without, they wrote their weird and extraordinary compositions.

   1883, Laura Carter Holloway, “Yorkshire Authors: Charlotte Bronté”, in Old Yorkshire, volume 4, page 126

   On July 2d of that year, Washington and his army, on their way southward to make the movement against New York, rested at eveningtide before the portals of her church […]

   1894 October 19, Isaac N. Mills, Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers’ Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N. Y., page 20

   Synonyms: evening