night air

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Noun

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night air (countable and uncountable, plural night airs)

  1. (obsolete) A miasma, or noxious atmosphere.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see night,‎ air.
    • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
      The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.