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dimpsy

British  
/ ˈdɪmpsɪ /

noun

  1. dialect twilight

"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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“I didn’t knaw ’e in the dimpsy light.”

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

“I wouldn’ go up thicky avenue in the dimpsy again, not for a thousand—no, I wouldn’.

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills

Down-long in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy, Down-long in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi’ me.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

Downling in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy— Downling in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi' me.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

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