gray-day

Updated: May 22, 2025

No: the time to throw the dogs off for a fox-hunt is that weird hour which the negroes significantly call "gray-day:" it is the surest time to strike a trail, and by the time Reynard begins to dodge and double there will be plenty of light to ride by and to get a good view.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876