aube

Leslie, audbade ... aube ... serenade at daybreak or greeting the day with song.

aubade - French Word-A-Day 2010

Leslie, audbade... aube... serenade at daybreak or greeting the day with song.

aubade - French Word-A-Day 2010

Catheringnettes, Lizzy and Lissy Mycock, from Street Flesh-shambles, were they moon at aube with hespermun and I their covin guardient, I would not know to contact such gretched youngsteys in my ways from Haddem or any suistersees or heiresses of theirn, claiming by, through, or under them.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Spanish also has albada, parallel to French aubade note aube, dawn and Italian albata.

languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM. 2005

The girgir, or the _geshe el aube_, a species of flowering grass.

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various

"_Pure et ravissante comme une aube d'avril_," "My dear dream of English loveliness," "the fair flower of my life" and remarks such as these were proof positive.

The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

The _aube_ is, again, a woman's song, uttered as a parting cry when the lark at daybreak, or the watcher from his tower, warns her lover to depart.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

Some were to be sung at midnight -- songs inviting to sleep, the serena, or serenade; others at break of day -- waking songs, the aube or aubade.

Aesthetic Poetry Walter Pater 1866

[* The dawn: in French aube (alba, albente coelo.)]

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Behind him stood Odo of Bayeux, in aube and gallium; some score of the Duke's greatest vassals; and at a little distance from the throne chair, was what seemed a table; or vast chest, covered all over with cloth of gold.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838