daylong
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Etymology
Adjective
daylong (not comparable)
- Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
- Coordinate term: dayslong
- 2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times:
- The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
Adverb
daylong (not comparable)
- Throughout the day.
- 1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
- 1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- ...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...
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