twilit

[twahy-lit]

adjective

1. lighted by or as by twilight.

   a twilit cathedral.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twilit¹

First recorded in 1865–70; twi(light) + lit ¹

Example Sentences

The majestic white steed in the title piece, “Death of a Rider,” rears up on a twilit beach, letting its rider tumble off like Icarus behind it.

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Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.

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Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.

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Druks, for her part, “paints women with their animal familiars and pagan accouterments, still lifes of twilit tables set with magic objects, all in deep, jeweled colors, full of hidden dream meanings,” Janssen said.

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It was a twilit space in which my thoughts moved like half-remembered dreams.

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