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单词 fuir-days
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fuir-daysn.

Forms: Also foor-, fure-, fuor-.
Etymology: Somewhat obscure; the sense would suggest identification of the first element with fore adv., but the phonology is in that case abnormal.
Scottish.
(a) Late in the day: = far days, forth days. (b) Broad daylight.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight > at noon or broad daylight
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1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 517 The king..left his sueit that tyme, and tuke gud rest, Sleipand rycht sound quhill all the nycht wes past, And on the morne, quhill it wes neir fuir-dais.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 24 Be that Time it was fair foor Days.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 17 At last 'twas gitten wheyte fuor days, The lavrocks shrill war whuslin'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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