gloam

gloam

[glohm]
noun Archaic.
twilight; gloaming.

Origin:
1815–25; back formation from gloaming

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gloam

noun
the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight
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