gloaming
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gloaming
First recorded before 1000; Middle English gloming, Old English glōmung, derivative of glōm “twilight”
Example Sentences
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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.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
There are exceptions, of course, to the rout of big old trees, including the old growth in the gloaming of the Pacific Northwest’s rainforests.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2020
The players can barely be seen but can somehow see each other, and they run plays crisply through the gloaming without a stumble.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2019
For now, Huggins had to get home, so she ran out to her car once more and pulled out from the post office, her yellow blinker dissolving into the gloaming.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2018
Then the bows of three boats began to materialize out of the gloaming, just beyond the railroad bridge.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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