gloam
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gloam
First recorded in 1815–25; back formation from gloaming
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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 livid gash in the west, a crash— Then silence, sadness, gloam.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
There’s not much talking down the lines, Nor shouting down the gloam; For when the night is ’round us, then We’re thinking most of home!
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
And when at last the long night nears, And love grows angel in the gloam, Nay, sweetheart, what of fears and tears?—
From Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
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