1624 E. Gurnay Romish Chaine 16 It is not only destitute of such immediate, instinctiue and noone shine light, but also is as vtterly voyd and vncapable of light as darknesse it selfe.

1682 J. O. Comfort in Affliction 14 Let not us who live so many years after,..be altogether blind, and see nothing at all, in the clear Noon-shine of their Doings.

1831 R. Montgomery Oxford i. 49 The noon-shine reign'd in golden pow'r.

1884 Catholic World Apr. 74 At the right glitter the slimy pools of the Rio Grande under the noonshine.

1897 ‘F. H. Williams’ Matin Bells vii. 405 Is it evening, sweet, or purple dusk Where the magic moonshine pours the waves like noonshine?

1919 T. Hardy Coll. Poems 510 Morns would have dawned On the uprooting by the night-gun's stroke Of what the yester noonshine brought to power.

1808 J. Austen Let. 22 June (1995) 130 The Moores came..between one & two o'clock, &..after the noonshine which succeeded their arrival, a party set off for Buckwell.

1808 J. Austen Let. 25 Oct. (1995) 151 The tide is just right for our going immediately after noonshine.

1993 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 21 Nov. While it is true that the idea of taking a mid-day meal was new to the gentry, as Presumption notes, Miss Austen did not know it as ‘luncheon’, but by the more delightful name of ‘noonshine’.