He paced up and down the ship's deck in the gloaming.
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Gloaming
//ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ//
Synonyms for "gloaming" (60 found)
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16 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- сумрак noun (twilight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黃昏 /黄昏 noun (twilight)
Finnish
2 entries- hämärä noun (twilight)
- iltahämärä noun (twilight)
French
2 entries- crépuscule noun (twilight)
- heure bleue noun (twilight)
Irish
3 entries- amhdhorchacht noun (twilight)
- clapsholas noun (twilight)
- contráth noun (twilight)
Italian
1 entries- imbrunire noun (twilight)
Russian
1 entries- су́мерки noun (twilight)
Scots
1 entries- gloamin noun (twilight)
Spanish
1 entries- crepúsculo noun (twilight)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoàng hôn noun (twilight)
Welsh
2 entries- brig y nos noun (twilight)
- cyfnos noun (twilight)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Source: wiktionary
You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming[…]
Source: wiktionary
I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
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