しらしら

しらしら, しらじら【白々】

〔夜が明けていくさま〕

●白々と with dawn approaching; with the night sky gradually turning white [gray] at dawn.

●白々と夜が明け始めた. Daybreak began with a streak of light in the sky.

・東の空が白々と明けてきた. The sky is growing light in the east.

白々(_しらしら)明け daybreak; dawn.

●夜の白々明けに at the first gray of dawn; in the gray of the morning; at daybreak [dawn]; at the peep [crack] of day; at first light.