Crepuscle \Cre*pus"cle\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"s'l), Crepuscule
\Cre*pus"cule\ (kr[-e]*p[u^]s"k[-u]l), n. [L. crepusculum, fr.
creper dusky, dark: cf. F. cr['e]puscule.]
Twilight. --Bailey.
[1913 Webster] Crepuscular
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
crepuscule
n : the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall,
fall, crepuscle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "crepuscule":
alpenglow, aurora, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight,
candlelighting, cocklight, dawnlight, dusk, duskingtide,
first light, foredawn, gloam, gloaming, glooming, glow, half-light,
morning twilight, owllight, the small hours, twilight
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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