cow-dust hour
n.— «It was the Indian “cow-dust hour”—an hour fit for reverie, all the more for Colonel X, because he was due to return to England within the month.» —“A Second Chance” Times (London, England) Sept. 16, 1938. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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