cockcrow
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cockcrow
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; see origin at cock 1, crow 2
Example Sentences
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At cockcrow one day last week, loudspeaker trucks began to cruise slowly through Saigon's streets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate.
From Time Magazine Archive
But once they hatched between hard covers, he knew how to sound the cockcrow of publicity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before the last hours of night, the moon sailed through the clouds, showing its face through the open window of the building before it was driven away by a cockcrow.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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