evenfall
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.
Noun[edit]
evenfall (countable and uncountable, plural evenfalls)
- (poetic) dusk, twilight
- 1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 15:
- The wind that blows across them calls
Ever at dawns and evenfalls,
And I am suddenly forlorn.
Across the pastures and ripe corn
I see the mountains in my dreams.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.
Synonyms[edit]
- crepusculum, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk