Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having happened or been made or gathered yesterday.

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Examples

  • We explored the ruined khan, in which were night-old traces of perhaps a hundred horse.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Here, this morning, the gray light of a winter dawn mingled with the dull flare of the hanging-lamp increasing the ghastliness of his appearance, sat Michael Gregoriev, in the stale bitterness of a night-old rage and mortification.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • "Trust not the snow of spring-time, nor night-old ice;

    Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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