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
Here’s to their eternal gloaming on the brightest Seattle summer days, to their pull tabs and to their stink of late-night desperation.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
His eyes pierce the gloaming to trace a sinking drive struck by Houston’s Alex Bregman.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 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
The rain was done and the cloudy gloaming had become true twilight.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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