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dewfall

American  
[doo-fawl, dyoo-] / ˈduˌfɔl, ˈdju- /

noun

  1. formation of dew.

  2. the time at which dew begins to form.


Etymology

Origin of dewfall

First recorded in 1615–25; dew + fall

Example Sentences

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I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.

From Time Magazine Archive

While leaves, not a few fall, Let rose-leaves for you fall, Leaves pearl-strung with dewfall,    And gold shot with dawn.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

He insisted, for instance, upon putting wraps about her shoulders after dewfall and refused to believe that she never caught cold.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

No lift of the heart would come with the lifting leaves, no pang of mysterious pain with bird-song, star-set, dewfall.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith

And softer than dewfall, and kindlier than starlight, and keener than wine, Came round us the fragrance of waters, the life of the breath of the brine.

From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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