dawntime

During a period of high dawntime drama last May, the broadcast crept to within 40,000 viewers of NBC's long-dominant Today show, but has since fallen into a protracted slump.

[em]Good Morning America[/em]'s Sherwood Leaving ABC 2006

During a period of high dawntime drama last May, the broadcast crept to within 40,000 viewers of NBC's long-dominant Today show, but has since fallen into a protracted slump.

[em]Good Morning America[/em]'s Sherwood Leaving ABC 2006

He believed in solving the insoluble; and nature had so richly dowered him in the very dawntime of discovery, that he was almost justified in this delusion.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Those of you who are often out in the dawntime know that there is no moon so glorious as that gleaming crescent, though in its wane, ascending _before_ the sun.

Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859