Eve /(ēv)/

Eve

n.
  1. Evening. [Poetic]
    Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
  2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

Phrases & Compounds
Eve churr
the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.