gloam

American  

[glohm] / gloʊm /

noun

Archaic.

1. twilight; gloaming.

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Etymology

Origin of gloam

First recorded in 1815–25; back formation from gloaming

Example Sentences

I loved the walk home after work, a damp mist falling, the sky turning purple and the White House aglow in the evening gloam, so close that you could reach out and touch it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

The summer was over too fast and suddenly I was back to Dublin’s autumn gloam, to my night job in a cinema, and to college, where I bumped into Rob again.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

I saw their starv'd lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke, and found me here On the cold hill-side.

From The Hundred Best English Poems by Gowans, Adam L. (Adam Luke)

Call thy sisters from the gloam, And, whilst I am on my way, Feast and frolic in my home,— Kiss the moonbeams, blanching white, Shrinking, shivering with affright!

From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Field, Eugene

Am I not like in this gloam a Cluster of fruit concealed By the leaves, and by nothing revealed, Save in the night its aroma?

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various