pride of the morning

English

Noun

pride of the morning

  1. (UK, Ireland, dialectal) A light rain (or sometimes a mist) which falls in the morning, especially one which is expected to give way to a pleasant day.
    • 1959, Dorothy Charques, The Nunnery, page 267:
      […] the pride of the morning was falling almost invisibly, the birds piped shrilly through the mist. Suddenly, as she watched, a hand and arm were thrust out between the new wooden bars of the watch tower window facing the road.
    • 2002, Lillian Beckwith, A Breath of Autumn, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 145:
      Once the muirburn was finished and the urgency of the season's work began to assert itself and, on a day attended by a 'pride of the morning mist' that was reckoned to foretell a spell of fine weather, Kirsty was turning the sheets she had washed and spread out on the dyke the previous evening when she heard Enac hailing her.

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