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noun

Gloaming n.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. (Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.)

Sullenness; melancholy. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Gloaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gloaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... draw their chairs around the fire with a kind of zeal; but to one new to such experience there was room for heart-sinkings when preparations were made, by putting fresh sticks on the fire, for sitting from gloaming to vespers, and sometimes on again unwearied ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... bulky parcel I sought the Belle Marie Cafe, ate my supper, thence hastened through the gloaming to the hotel for bath and change ...

— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin

... head of a heathen god, Thalassa stood at the front door watching the departure of Sisily and her aunt until the car was lost to sight in a dip of the moors. Then with a glance at the leaping water at the foot of the cliffs, grey and mysterious in the gloaming, he turned and went ...

— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees

... breath they watched the dark mass moving along like some destroying tempest with ten thousand devils at its core. Chained to the ground with a terrible awe they stood fast for many minutes till at last in the dim light, for the gloaming had come upon the plains, they see eye-balls that blaze like fire, heads crested with rugged, uncouth horns and shaggy manes; and then snouts thrust down, flaring nostrils, ...

— The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief • Joseph Edmund Collins

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