Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having happened or been made or gathered yesterday.
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Examples
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We explored the ruined khan, in which were night-old traces of perhaps a hundred horse.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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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
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"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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