📖 twilight

adjective1 sense

1. lighted by or as if by twilight; -Henry Fielding“The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn”

See also: duskytwilit

noun2 senses

1. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
2. a condition of decline following successes“in the twilight of the empire”
3. the time of day immediately following sunset“he loved the twilight”

See also: crepusclecrepusculeduskevenfallfallgloamgloamingnightfall

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