moonrise

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Moonrise
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Etymology

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From moon +‎ rise.

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moonrise (plural moonrises)

  1. The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
    • 1742, Matthew Towers, transl., The Lyric Pieces of Horace[1], Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17:
      Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.
    • 1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney[2], volume I, London: Longman & Rees, page 23:
      Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.
    • 1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:
      Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.
    • 1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,[3]
      Do I not know, some wingèd things from far
      Are borne along illimitable night
      To dance their lives out in a single flight
      Between the moonrise and the setting star?
    • 1917 November, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon”, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XI, number II, page 71:
      Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling
      Where my dark lover lies.
      Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling
      At grey moonrise.
    • 2021 January 13, “Settle under starlight”, in Rail, page 37, photo caption:
      Moonrise over the hills above Settle.

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