gloaming

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   twilight or dusk, especially the dim light just after sunset

   The church tower emerged from the gloaming as they approached the village.

From Scots and northern English gloaming, continuing Middle English gloming and Old English glōmung ("twilight"), related to glōm ("gloom, twilight"). The modern vowel reflects a historical variant; the word now has a distinctly literary or poetic flavor.

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