dusk
noun
the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.
duskish
-
a word derived from
dusk.
Example Sentences
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Here I have sat a few minutes, and had not the least thought of getting away, or going farther; but to return as soon as it was duskish.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
It was now duskish, but he was so near that he could see her eyes through the twilight.
From Frank Merriwell Down South by Burt L. Standish
The tenseness and redness of the skin was almost gone off, and became of a duskish and livid colour, and felt very lax and flabby.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
It was duskish, and a candle was placed on a table at a little distance.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
In respect to the Patagonians, Cliffe, it must be allowed, says, they were “of a mean stature, well limbed, and of a duskish tawnie or browne colour.”
From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss
