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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)  , the time when
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light appears (daws) in the sky in the
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morning . The dawn colours appear in the
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reverse order of the sunset colours and are due to the same cause . When the sun is lowest in both cases the colour is deep red; this gradually changes through orange to gold and brilliant yellow as the sun approaches the horizon . These colours follow each other in order of refrangibility, reproducing all the colours of the spectrum in order except the blue rays which are scattered in the sky . The colours of the dawn are purer and colder than the sunset colours since there is less dust and moisture in the atmosphere and less consequent sifting of light rays .

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