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  • noun Scotland The evening, between twilight and bedtime.

Etymologies

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fore- +‎ night

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Examples

  • Arrawd's three moons had last been high in the sky together nearly a forenight ago.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Arrawd's three moons had last been high in the sky together nearly a forenight ago.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Arrawd's three moons had last been high in the sky together nearly a forenight ago.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • The stars wheeled in their endless march, the well-known ones of the forenight giving place to strangers of the after hours, and Ridgar had begun to move with the caution of the hunted, inch by inch, out from the shelter of the lodge, when he felt a hand steal from the darkness and touch him with infinite care.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • Hut a check was given for a while to these forenight meetings.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • He was hard at work in the execution of this project, on the third night, or rather late afternoon: they called it _forenight_ there.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • But lo, the sheen of such a venture darkens upon the news of a forenight past, when made-and-true pirates from the dark continent boarded a vessel and hostaged her stalwart captain.

    The Seventh Sense 2009

  • Arrawd’s three moons had last been high in the sky together nearly a forenight ago.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • "She's gotten a hurt man down there," said Jerry, "she has been runnin 'wi' white clouts and bandages a 'the forenight.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • "See to yon gentry cove," cried one of the band; "'tis the same we saw in the forenight crossing the ford above.

    Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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