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dusk

[duhsk]

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noun

the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.

partial darkness; shade; gloom: She was barely visible in the dusk of the room.

Origin:
1615–25; back formation from dusky

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Example Sentences

As dusk falls over the city, so too do menu prices in many prominent restaurants.

The last of the office lights are being turned off in the gathering dusk which marks the end of another day's administrative toil.

Half of the eight enormous paintings of water lilies depict the flowers at dawn, half at dusk.

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As dusk falls over the city, so too do menu prices in many prominent restaurants.

The last of the office lights are being turned off in the gathering dusk which marks the end of another day's administrative toil.

Half of the eight enormous paintings of water lilies depict the flowers at dawn, half at dusk.

Most people worked dawn to dusk in the fields and factories to eke out a living.

Blank travels at dusk to minimize sun damage and seeks shelter at the first hint of rain.

Start with a visit to the park's mega-celebrity geyser and end with wildlife watching at dusk more.

It is shot at dusk and the light is changing constantly.

The blurring of race labels is neither the dawn of colorblindness nor the dusk of racism.

These people are working from dawn till well past dusk with few breaks in between.

At dusk the heat gave way to the cool evening air, and the camp divided into three groups.

At dusk a gentle breeze came up and cooled things down.

The previous night, the sunset had been no less spectacular-rows of peaks in all directions glowing rosy red as dusk softly fell.

The show is best at dusk and at night, when the glow of fume clouds contrasts against dark sky and sea.

They'd land at dusk and transfer their bags of mail to overnight trains.

After collecting all the frames before dusk set in, my next chore was to clean and store the super for the winter.

They usually hunt at night or during the gloaming hours of dawn and dusk.

Around dusk the lights went up on the launchpad, and the vigil seemed to begin in earnest.

I've ever seen- thousands upon thousands of them circling around and attacking clouds of gnats and mosquitoes at dusk.

We walked at dusk a long way in the city to the center, and mixed with the locals watching a soccer game.

Dusk is more concerned with story than game play and it has a bad habit of leading the player around by the nose.

The structure has been rebuilt with greatly added capacity and structural integrity, and provides quite a show at dusk each day.

Manhattan's usually crawling traffic will grind to a halt as gridlock rules from dusk to.

The sun had gone down and the dusk was growing murky.

The day stays warm, but even at noon it feels as though dusk has already set in.

We reach the rim by dusk and erect our tents, then stand on the edge and stare down into the crater.

Melatonin levels peak around dusk and drop sharply at sunrise.

She rattles around the dear old place in the gathering dusk plays something on the phonograph, and finally sinks into bed.

The dusk settles upon the desert, sealing me in beneath a wrap of fog.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

tending to darkness; dark.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to make or become dusk; darken.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English duske (adj.), dusken (v.); metathetic alteration of Old English dox dusky, doxian to turn dark; cognate with L. fuscus dark

Related forms

dusk·ish, adjective

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World English Dictionary

dusk (dʌsk)

—n
1.	twilight or the darker part of twilight
2.	poetic gloom; shade

—*adj*
3.	poetic shady; gloomy

—vb
4.	poetic to make or become dark

[Old English dox; related to Old Saxon dosan brown, Old High German tusin yellow, Norwegian dusmen misty, Latin fuscus dark brown]

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Word Origin & History

dusk

O.E. dox "dark-haired, dark from the absence of light" (cognate with Swed. duska "be misty," L. fuscus "dark," Skt. dhusarah "dust-colored"). Modern form is perhaps via a Northumbrian variant. A color word originally; the sense of "twilight" is recorded from 1622.

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