Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
- n. A period of calm, often nostalgic: “halcyon days of yore”, “halcyon days of youth”.
Examples
“He restoreth my soul … How fleeting are those halcyon days of youth!”
“Did we really need to watch a sixty-minute flashback to Sister Bernadette's halcyon days at the nunnery in "The Trouble with Anglicans"?”
The Warslayer
“So let us take courage and be of good cheer for the Lord of Hosts is our helper & we will not fear what [unclear: waits us] can do How the storm is raging! the hail and rain are pouring down on my canvass roof and a chilly dampness attests the penetrating effect of this moistened atmosphere -- all seems gloomy & cheerless, dark and disagreeable, but tomorrow morning may and likely will, find the sun streaming thorugh the dissipating vapors & cheering us with a spring morning -- thus, ever, it happens with human things -- as you wrote me, in halcyon days of the now long ago that "every cloud has its silver lining", so let us reflect that "joy cometh in the morning" and "fear no danger", trusting to Him that is mightier than the mightiest.”
Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to Sara A. Hotchkiss, March 15, 1863
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semantic satiation, halcyon days, brass tacks, niceties, blap, heterophobic, now now
mialuthien = a nostalgic and idealistic reference to a perfect time in one's life Jul 24, 2008
icco Period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur. Sep 20, 2007