noon of night

noon of night (plural noons of night)

1. (poetic, archaic) midnight
   • 1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, lines 213–216:

     When full before him, at the noon of night,
     (The moon was up, and shot a gleamy light)
     He saw a quire of ladies in a round,
     That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground;

   • 1806, George Gordon Byron, Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country:

     'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still,
     Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.

   • 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf:

     Of sunken suns at eve – at noon of night,
     While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light

• 12 a.m., noon; see also Thesaurus:midnight

• “noon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.