wane
/weɪn/ nom C1En français : déclin, flache
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
- The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
- The end of a period. · ]
- A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
Pluriel wanes
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By a chance, which added yet more to the intensity of the darkness, the moon, which was on the wane, did not rise until eleven o’clock, and the streets which the young man traversed were plunged in the deepest obscurity.
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