crepuscule
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See also: crépuscule
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French crepuscule, from Latin crepusculum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crepuscule (plural crepuscules)
- (now rare) Twilight.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 54:
- Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.
Synonyms
[edit]- blue hour, gloaming; see also Thesaurus:twilight
Related terms
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[edit]twilight
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