eve
/iːv/ nom B2En français : veille
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. · She died on the eve of her 100th birthday.
- The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced · the eve of a scientific discovery
Pluriel eves
Dans la bibliothèque
And when at eve I rise from tea,
As at eve behind the pane
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
Marilla knew all the following fortnight that Matthew had something on his mind, but what it was she could not guess, until Christmas Eve, when Mrs.
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