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noun
Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
Qualifier: literary or puristic
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).
