ˈnight-season
[f. night n. + season n.]
The night-time.
| 1535 Coverdale Luke xxi. 37 In the night season he wente out, and abode all night vpon mount Oliuete. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 51 The Captaine of Turege had taken in the night season John Oxeline. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 93 In thir only mantilis in the ny{supt} seasone thay rowit thame selfes, and in thame sleipet sound. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. (Bohn) 299 He calls up the breeze to chase away the usurping vapours of the night-season. 1860 Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 37 The aborigines holding their revels under the coolness of the night-season. |