twilight
/ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/ noun B2- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. · Near-synonym: half-light· I could just make out her face in the twilight.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness. · It was twilight by the time I got back home.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
- The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived. · The twilight of one's life· , Book IV, Chapter XIV The twilight […] of probability.
Plural twilights
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Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
That bridge led Anne’s dancing feet up over a wooded hill beyond, where perpetual twilight reigned under the straight, thick-growing firs and spruces; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate “June bells,” those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale, aerial starflowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.
When Marilla went home Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.
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