Citations:twilights
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English citations of twilights
- 2011 September 28, Russell Miller, Ten Days in May: The People's Story of VE Day[2], A&C Black, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- they had hung up on a flagpole some WAAF “twilights”. It was a great standing joke with the men, they always referred to our knickers as “blackouts”. They weren't black, they were air force blue rayon directoire knickers. But the “twilights” were for winter, interlock drawers in a very pale grey
- 2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War[3], Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- We had what were called the ‘blackouts’ and ‘twilights’. The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.