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Crepuscule

//kɹɪˈpʌs.kjul// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Twilight. archaic

    "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."

  2. 2
    the time of day immediately following sunset wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French crepuscule m, ultimately from Latin crepusculum n.

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