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pride of the morning

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

Noun

pride of the morning

  1. (Ireland, UK, dialectal) A light rain (or sometimes a mist) which falls in the morning, especially one which is expected to give way to a pleasant day.
    • […] 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.1959, Dorothy Charques, The Nunnery, page 267
    • 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...2002, Lillian Beckwith, A Breath of Autumn, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 145

Questions about pride of the morning

What does pride of the morning mean?
Pride of the morning means a light rain (or sometimes a mist) which falls in the morning, especially one which is expected to give way to a pleasant day.
What part of speech is pride of the morning?
Pride of the morning is a noun.

Words near pride of the morning in the dictionary

  1. Pride of India tree
  2. Pride of India trees
  3. pride of Ohio
  4. pride of place
  5. Pride of Sussex
  6. pride of the morning
  7. pride parade
  8. pride parades
  9. pride wenteth before a fall
  10. Prideaux
  11. prided

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