Meaning of pride of the morning | Babel Free

Definitions

A light rain (or sometimes a mist) which falls in the morning, especially one which is expected to give way to a pleasant day.

Ireland, UK, dialectal

Examples

“[…] the pride of the morning was falling almost invisibly, the birds piped shrilly through the mist. Suddenly, as she watched, a hand and arm were thrust out between the new wooden bars of the watch tower window facing the road.”

“Once the muirburn was finished and the urgency of the season's work began to assert itself and, on a day attended by a 'pride of the morning mist' that was reckoned to foretell a spell of fine weather, Kirsty was turning the sheets she had washed and spread out on the dyke the previous evening when she heard Enac hailing her.”

CEFR level