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UK
/ɡlˈəʊmɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɫoʊmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫoʊmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the time of day immediately following sunset
he loved the twilight
they finished before the fall of night
How To Use gloaming In A Sentence
- Posted in gloaming review | Tagged charles black, de vermis infestis, gloaming review, john llewellyn probert, review, the fifth black book of horror | Leave a Comment GR1: De Vermis Infestis by John LLewellyn Probert « In The Gloaming Podcasts
- It's the gloaming twilight of it, the soft seduction of lost hopes, the valiant wit, the heroic jig.
- But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 yards away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop.
- As it was, the darkness of night was beginning to give way to the gloaming before daylight.
- From reel to schottische and from schottische to reel, foursome and eightsome, they kept him playing, ever asking for more, till the gloaming passed into moonlight and still they were not done. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
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- It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
- Shepherds was pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats.
- Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground.
- She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship. The Forsyte Saga - Complete