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Designating full or broad daylight. Now archaic and poetic.
(a) Late in the day: = far days, forth days. (b) Broad daylight.
The light of the sun at noon; the brightest or clearest light of the day. Also figurative.
= noonlight, n. Occasionally (esp. in early use) as adj.