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ˈnightfall
[f. night n. + fall n.1]
1. The coming on of night; the time of dusk.
1700Farquhar Constant Couple ii. iv, No man is seen to come into this house after nightfall. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 24 Aug. 538/1 By night-fall the enemy had betaken themselves to flight. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 342 The traveller at nightfall would have found the inn where he had expected to sup and lodge deserted. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. lvi. 133 Had he talked on the subject till nightfall no such word would have been spoken.
2. (See quot.) So night-falling. rare—0.
1611Cotgrave, La groüée des fruicts, that fruit which falls in the night; wind-falls, night-falls, night-wind-falls. 1632Sherwood, The night-fallings of fruites. |