aurorean
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1ADJ.
tender
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adj
Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.
1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50, […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.
Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.
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adjective — characteristic of the dawn
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31783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50
WiktionaryTheir lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu, As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber, And ready still past kisses to outnumber At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
Wiktionary1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300, […] There, hover’d in light, That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright And
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