nightertale
English
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle English nyghtertale, alteration of Old Norse náttarþel.
Noun
editnightertale (plural not attested)
- (archaic) The period of night; nighttime.
- 1867, Charles Knight, editor, The Pictoral Works of Shakspere: Histories — Volume II, George Routledge & Sons, pages 21–22:
- A person (as their books make her) raised up by power divine, only for succour to the French estate, then deeply in distress, in whom, for planting a credit the rather, first the company that towards the Dauphin did conduct her, through all dangerous, as held by the English, where she never was afore, all the way and by nightertale safely did she lead; […]
- 1926, Arthur Mache, Notes and Queries, Spurr & Swift, page 14:
- All through the nightertale I longed for thee, […]
- 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 44:
- And since Thomas of Gloucester was Arundel's friend, and only God and His Saints knew which way the redeless King would jump, the future was so dangerful that Edmund of York could neither relish his meat nor sleep sound at nightertale.
Synonyms
edit- night, nighttide; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
References
edit- “nightertale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
editNoun
editnightertale
- Alternative form of nyghtertale
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unattested plurals
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms with quotations
- en:Night
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns