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dayclean
dayclean n.
Brit. 
/ˈdeɪkliːn/
, /ˈdeɪkliːn/U.S. /ˈdeɪˌklin/
, /ˈdeɪˌklin/Caribbean English /ˈdeːˌkliːn/
, West African English /ˈdeˌklin/
[probably after an expression in a West African language] U.S. regional (chiefly South Carolina), Caribbean, and West African dawn; daybreak.In U.S. regional use, chiefly in the areas of South Carolina where Gullah is spoken./ˈdeˌklin/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
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1835 Children's Friend Sept. 15 Every night, before we go to sleep, my eldest son..says a prayer; and soon in the morning, before day-clean (day-light), I wake him to say prayer again.
1867 W. F. Allen Slave Songs U.S. p. xxvi Day-clean is used for day-break.
1937 D. C. Heyward Seed from Madagascar 169 At ‘fus daa'k’, ‘middle night’, and ‘day clean’ Cudjo would emerge from the watchman's house and fire his musket.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 373 Their masters..decreed that a field slave must work from ‘day clean’ to ‘first dark.’
2011 Times 21 May (Saturday Review) 22 He loves the local [Guyanese] language, which calls the dawn ‘dayclean’.
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