moonhours
/ˈmuːnˌaʊəz/nounVerified NewAlso in: Mondstunden (Deutsch) · horasluna (Español) · heureslune (Français)
The hours that belong to the moon — the part of the night that is not owed to the morning.
The moonhours are the night's free territory: after the last obligation and before the first alarm, the hours that belong to no schedule. They are spent badly and remembered well — the kitchen at two, the walk at three, the conversation that could not happen in daylight.
Etym. — moon + hours — the lunar metaphor for the night's unowned time; the moon is exactly the authority that is not the sun's schedule.
Rel. — nightflood · starlag
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