nooning
Example Sentences
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Every street is as packed as lower Fifth Avenue used to be when the operatives came out of the big shops for their nooning.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
Bert Chester, waiting before Zinkand’s an hour later, picked her a block away from the nooning crowd.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
After a long nooning they pushed on until nearly sunset.
From The Pines of Lory by Mitchell, John Ames
When Father Brighthopes mounted the hay-rick, to ride to the field with the laborers, after their brief nooning, he remarked that he "smelt a storm brewing."
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
Dolly trotted off to school well content with the prospect before her: a nooning, with leave to play with the girls at school, was not an unpleasant idea.
From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Schayer, Julia Thompson von Stosch
