Meaning of middle day | Babel Free

Definitions

Midday; noon.

uncountable

Examples

“Till each like⟳ a golden image was pollen'd from head to feet, And each was as dry as a cricket, with thirst in the middleday heat.”

“[...] a law, in short, is all the hundred and one things, the hundred and one tasks you have⟳ to fulfil at all hours, the grey and gentle hours of the morning, the white hours of middle day, the purple hours of evening, the silent, meditative hours of night; tasks which leave⟳ you no soul to call⟳ your own⟳ and rob⟳ you of the consciousness of your own⟳ identity.”

“The cold roast beef is frozen and comes from Australia and was over-cooked at middle day; and the burgundy - ah, why will they call⟳ it burgundy? Have⟳ they never been to Beaune and stayed at Hotel de la Poste?”

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