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gloam

  [glohm]
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–noun Archaic.
twilight; gloaming.
Origin:
1815–25; back formation from gloaming
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gloam   (glōm)   
n.   Archaic
Twilight; gloaming.

[Back-formation from gloaming.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Gloam

Gloam\, v. i. [See Gloom, Glum.]

1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

2. To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]

Gloam

Gloam\, n. The twilight; gloaming. [R.] --Keats.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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