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UK
/ɡlˈəʊmɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɫoʊmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫoʊmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the time of day immediately following sunset
he loved the twilight
they finished before the fall of night
How To Use gloaming In A Sentence
- She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship. The Forsyte Saga - Complete
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- In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
- The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming,
- It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
- Parkas worn over close-fitting body pieces leap from the gloaming in acid greens, violent oranges, purples and cardinal reds.
- He had been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about the streets in the gloaming. Les Miserables
- Small numbers of red deer are also here, especially in the gloaming, grazing high among the pines.
- A little light entered the room from the gloaming outside the window. AMERICAN GODS