Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The light of the dawning sun; hence, the beginning; the dawn.
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Examples
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Only a sort of half-darkness lies between the lingering sunset and the early sun-dawn.
Lords of the North 1903
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And Rose Mary herself was a fresh, fragrant incarnation of the spirit of a spring sun-dawn that had come over the
Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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It mattered little where she lived -- mattered little if the sun-dawn never broke again.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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"'Oh,' she said as a glory that was like the sun-dawn spread over her face and neck and white breast, 'oh -- a man -- I'm glad!
The Elected Mother 1912
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"'Oh,' she said as a glory that was like the sun-dawn spread over her face and neck and white breast, 'oh — a man — I'm glad!
The Elected Mother 1912
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