BULLFINCH SKYNOUN
a red-hued sunset ...1863 Eng. dial. (Norfolk) ETYMOLOGY from the colour of the bullfinch FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1863 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...While we look on, it changes, deepening as soon as the sun has gone down into a glossy lurid crimson. An old shepherd, quite as high an authority on weather matters within the village precincts as Admiral Fitzroy himself, first drew my attention to this 'bullfinch sky' - so he called it - as a certain portent of foul weather." From: Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume XVIII, 1863 "Our Winter Pensioners" SOURCES • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
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