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gloaming

[ gloh-ming ]

noun



gloaming

/ ˈɡəʊɪŋ /

noun

  1. poetic.
    twilight or dusk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gloaming1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English gloming, Old English ōܲԲ, derivative of ō “tɾ”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gloaming1

Old English ōܲԲ, from ō; related to Old Norse moon
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I’m more of an evening than a morning person, so this arrangement makes viewing Mercury easier for me, and I’m always delighted when I can catch it in the gloaming.

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Two hours later in the California gloaming, List secured an even better treat for little Ryann List.

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“In Gates’s telling,” noted our reviewer, Jon Meacham, the Black church “shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth.”

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Here’s to their eternal gloaming on the brightest Seattle summer days, to their pull tabs and to their stink of late-night desperation.

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The gray gloaming and hallucinatory mists envelop a spare and savage landscape, with the witches shape shifting into three black birds.

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