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twilit

[ twahy-lit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of twilit¹

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

Thanks, I dined on the way up—in a twilit refreshment-room, with one waiter and a number of attendant black-beetles.

The village began to send forth blue wood-smoke, and it seemed more than ever like the twilit West Country.

Olive had laid aside her book some time since, and now, wearying of the grey twilit world, she fell asleep.

In the stillness of the twilit courtyard she could hear the sounds of laughter and talking from the Quadrangle.

But we must beware of each step in these twilit recesses, for the fays of Brittany are not as those of other lands.

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