break of day
Noun
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Noun
break of day (uncountable)
- Daybreak.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX:
- Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
- Like to the lark at break of day arising
- From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.
- If you want to fool old Mr. Jay."
- 2001 August 6, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,169342,00.html Wailing Over Whales]," Time:
- Wholesale buyers and curious onlookers pack Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market at the break of day.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX:
- break of dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn
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