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
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Translations[edit]
twilight
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