Meaning of halcyon days | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
   plural, plural-only
2. A period of calm, usually in the past and often nostalgic.
   idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Examples

“halcyon days of yore”

“halcyon days of youth”

“Expect Saint Martins summer, Halcyon dayes, / Since I haue entred into theſe Warres.”

“And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.”

“Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! / The brooding and blissful halcyon days!”

“It was a halcyon day, and as they neared the shore and the salt breezes scurried by, he began to picture the ocean and long, level stretches of sand and red roofs over blue sea.”

“And the ragged rock in the restless waters, / Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; / On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, / In navigable weather is always a seamark / to lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.”

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