noun
Literary or poetic term for the first light of morning; less common in everyday speech than 夜明け.
引き明けの空が美しい。
The sky at dawn is beautiful.
The standard, everyday word for dawn. 引き明け is more literary and less common.
Compound of 引き (hiki, continuative form of 引く 'to pull') + 明け (ake, continuative form of 明ける 'to dawn'), literally 'pulling dawn'. The exact derivation is uncertain; it may refer to the gradual drawing of light across the sky.