| 词汇 | peep of dawn |
| 词源 | peep of dawn. Although at pype was recorded in 1530, Brit- ish poet Thomas Gray coined the term peep of dawn in his poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1750). It means the “first appearance of light at dawn,” a tiny speck of light. Peep o’day is an Irish variation on the term, and the Peep O’ Day Boys was an Irish faction of Protestants in the 1780s who raided their opponents’ homes at dawn to catch them by surprise. See far from the madding crowd. |
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