Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Twilight; the light of the morning from the first dawn to sunrise, and of the evening from sunset to darkness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Twilight.
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- noun variant of
crepuscule
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
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Examples
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It wasn't yet dawn, and the forest was filled with mist and gray-blue light; crepuscle, the mysterious half-light that comes at both ends of the day, when the small secret things come out to feed.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Cæsar already understood this; his mysterious and obscure connection with Cleopatra had certainly for ultimate motive and reason this political necessity; and Antony, in marrying Cleopatra, probably only applied more or less shrewdly the ideas that Cæsar had originated in the refulgent crepuscle of his tempestuous career.
Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
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S.en from the Grand Canal or from a window opposite, it is pretentious and an interloper, particularly if the slender and distinguished Gothic windows of the apse of S. Gregorio are also visible; seen from any distant enough spot, its dome and towers fall with equal naturalness into the majestic Venetian pageant of full light, or the fairy Venetian mirage of the crepuscle.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
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Philadelphia's naked bike ride held this Sunday at dusk, finally uniting testicle with crepuscle ...
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Philadelphia's naked bike ride held this Sunday at dusk, finally uniting testicle with crepuscle ...
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Philadelphia's naked bike ride held this Sunday at dusk, finally uniting testicle with crepuscle ...
Dan337 commented on the word crepuscle
See also “crepuscular”, “crepuscular arch”, “crepuscular ray”, “crepuscule”, “crepusculine”, “crepusculous”, and “crepusculum”.
January 26, 2011