interlune
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with interlunation. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun[edit]
interlune (plural not attested)
- (rare) Synonym of interlunation.
- 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 10:
- “Give ear, all ye Imperial Princes, Ministers of State, and high functionaries, who are here assembled, and hearken to the great purification by which at this interlune of the sixth month are purged and washed away all sins…”
- (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Hardy, Aquae Sulis:
- The chimes called midnight, just at interlune,
And the daytime talk of the Roman investigations
Was checked by silence, save for the husky tune
The bubbling waters played near the excavations.
- 1862, Samuel Wills, To Devonia, page 3:
- And there the cliffs form a dark interlune
To hide the pale and broad placid moon;
References[edit]
- “interlune, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
