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

A quintessence and distillation of peace and comradeship seemed to inhabit the soft gloam of its chancel.

From War and the Weird by Phillips, Forbes

I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gap�d wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

Where the moon shone on the terrace And its fountain's lisping foam; Where the bronzen urns of flowers Breathed faint perfume thro' the gloam, By the alabaster Venus 'Neath the quiet stars we'd roam.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.