dark of the moon

American  

noun

1. the period during which the moon is not visible.

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Etymology

Origin of dark of the moon

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

I try to time it for the dark of the moon.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2010

About every dark of the moon since then, some kind of anti-Figueres plot has popped up.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dark of the moon one night, just after midnight, a force of Gurkhas moved stealthily forward toward Djebel Fatnassa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lyndon Johnson had cried that the next Congress, with New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson as Joint Committee chairman, would "expose Dixon-Yates, written in the dark of the moon, to some good New Mexican sunlight."

From Time Magazine Archive

The dark of the moon that follows first after Sunreturn is called the Fallows, and is the contrary pole of the days of the Moon and the Long Dance in summer.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin