dusk
/dʌsk/ noun C2- The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period. · Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.· We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.
- A darkish colour.
- The condition of being dusky; duskiness
Plural dusks
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The sun had set and dusk was settling over the moor.
She lingered there until dusk, liking the peace and calm of the little place, with its poplars whose rustle was like low, friendly speech, and its whispering grasses growing at will among the graves.
The man got into the house between four-thirty and six; that is to say, between dusk and the time when the bridge was raised.
“Do what you like and go where you will, but meet me here before dusk without fail—without fail, Mr.
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