夜や陰いん

noun

shades of evening; dead of night

Literary noun for the darkness of night, often used in the phrase 夜陰に乗じて (under cover of darkness). Not an everyday word; 夜の闇 or 夜の暗がり are more common in casual speech.

See also: 夜陰に乗じて

• 夜や陰いんに乗じょうじて敵てき陣じんに忍しのび込こんだ。

  Under cover of darkness, they sneaked into the enemy camp.

• 犯はん人にんは夜や陰いんに紛まぎれて逃とう亡ぼうした。

  The culprit fled under the cover of night.