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Crepusculous   Listen
adjective
Crepusculous, Crepuscular  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. "This semihistorical and crepuscular period."
2.
(Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; said certain birds and insects. "Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular."





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"Crepusculous" Quotes from Famous Books



... slumberous elms; often had he thought of that village on the hill-top with its grey steeple. Well, he would see them all in a few days. And how would England compare with the tingling realism of Nepenthe? Rather parochial, rather dun; grey-in-grey; subdued light above—crepuscular emotions on earth. Everything fireproof, seaworthy. Kindly thoughts expressed in safe unvarying formulas. A guileless people! Ships tossing at sea; minds firmly anchored to the commonplace. Abundance for the ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas


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